Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Baron Jöns Jacob Berzelius was a Swedish chemist. Berzelius is considered, along with Robert Boyle, John Dalton, and Antoine Lavoisier, to be one of the founders of modern chemistry. Berzelius became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1808 and served from 1818 as its principal functionary.
Background
- Born in
- Väfversunda
- Educated at
- Uppsala UniversityKatedralskolan
- Awards
- 🏆 Copley Medal🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society🏆 Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order🏆 Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class🏆 Knight of the Order of the Polar Star
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Johan Afzelius
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Friedrich Wöhler📖 Heinrich Rose
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"Every chemical combination is wholly and solely dependent on two opposing forces, positive and negative electricity, and every chemical compound must be composed of two parts combined by the agency of…"
"In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry."
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Timeline
1779
Born
Birth1848
Died
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