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Jöns Jacob Berzelius (August 20, 1779 - August 7, 1848). Swedish chemist, inventor of modern chemical notation, and the discoverer of silicon, selenium, thorium, and cerium. Along with John Dalton and Antoine Lavoisier, considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry. Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1808, and member of the Swedish Academy in 1837.

Trained as a medical doctor at the Uppsala University, in 1807 he became a professor at the Stockholm University. Not long after arriving there he wrote a chemistry textbook for his medical students, from which point a long and fruitful career in chemistry began. While conducting experiments in support of the textbook he discovered the law of constant proportions[?], which showed that inorganic substances are composed of different elements in constant proportions by weight. From this, by 1828 he compiled a table of the relative atomic weights (with oxygen set to 100) of all elements then known. Taken together, this work was a strong confirmation of the atomic hypothesis; that inorganic chemical compounds were composed of atoms combining in whole number amounts. In discovering that the atomic weights were also not integer multiples of hydrogen's, Berzelius also disproved Prout's hypothesis that elements were built up from atoms of hydrogen. Berzelius in 1838 discovered proteins.

In order to aid his experiments, he developed a system of chemical notation in which the elements were given simple written labels -- such as O for oxygen, or Fe for iron -- and proportions were noted with numbers. This is the same basic system as is used today, the only difference being that where we would use a subscript number (i.e., H₂O), Berzelius would use a superscript.

A biography on Jac. Berzelius - his life and work was written by J. Erik Jorpes and published in 1966 and 1970 (originally in Swedish, first published in 1949).

See also: List of Swedish scientists

External links

Publications (http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/authors/jjberzel.html) - at Project Runeberg

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