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Nationality Sweden
Scientific career
Fields Chemistry
Achievements
Law of definite proportions
Daguerreotype of Berzelius.
Discovery of elements
Berzelius is credited with identifying the
chemical elements silicon, selenium,
thorium, and cerium. Students working in
Berzelius's laboratory also discovered
lithium and vanadium.
Biology
Family
Honours
1840: Knight of the Order of Leopold.[14]
References
1. "Jöns Jacob Berzelius" . Encyclopædia
Britannica Online. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
2. Berzelius Day honoured on YouTube
3. Berzelius, Jöns Jakob. Jakob Berzelius:
Selbstbiographische Aufzeichnungen.
Forgotten Books. ISBN 1332586104.
4. Karolinska Institutet 200 År – 1810–
2010
5. Centre for History of Science at the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences: KVA och
Berzelius Archived 19 August 2007 at the
Wayback Machine., accessed 23 May 2009
(in Swedish)
6. "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter
B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
7. "Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779 - 1848)" .
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
8. Berzelius, Jacob (1813), Thomson,
Thomas, ed., "Essay on the Cause of
Chemical Proportions, and on some
Circumstances relating to them: together
with a short and easy Method of expressing
them" , Annals of Philosophy, London:
Robert Baldwin, II & III, pp 443 – 454 & pp
51 – 62, 93 – 106, 244 – 256, 353 – 364,
retrieved 13 December 2014 also Vol III
9. NationalEncyklopedin. Höganäs,
Sweden: Bra Böcker AB. 1990. p. 484.
ISBN 91-7024-619-X.
10. Berzelius 1813, Vol III, pp 51 – 52.
11. Cornish-Bawden, Athel, ed. (1997), New
Beer in an Old Bottle. Eduard Buchner and
the Growth of Biochemical Knowledge ,
Universitat de València, pp. 72–73,
ISBN 9788437033280
12. Biographical Dictionary of Scientists ed.
T. I. Williams. London: A. & C. Black, 1969;
pp. 55–56
13. "Berzelius, Johan Jakob, Baron".
Chamber's Biographical Dictionary 1897.
14. Almanach royal officiel de
Belgique/1841 p118
Further reading
Jaime Wisniak (2000). "Jöns Jacob
Berzelius A Guide to the Perplexed
Chemist". The Chemical Educator. 5 (6):
343–350.
doi:10.1007/s00897000430a .
Paul Walden (1947). "Zum 100.
Todestag von Jöns Jakob Berzelius am
7. August 1948". Naturwissenschaften.
34 (11): 321–327.
Bibcode:1947NW.....34..321W .
doi:10.1007/BF00644137 .
Holmberg, Arne (1933) Bibliografi över J.
J. Berzelius. 2 parts in 5 vol. Stockholm:
Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien,
1933–67. 1. del och suppl. 1–2. Tryckta
arbeten av och om Berzelius. 2. del och
suppl. Manuskript
Jorpes, J. Erik (1966) Jac. Berzelius –
his life and work; translated from the
Swedish manuscript by Barbara Steele.
Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1966.
(Reissued by University of California
Press, Berkeley, 1970 ISBN 0-520-01628-
9)
Leicester, Henry (1970–80). "Berzelius,
Jöns Jacob". Dictionary of Scientific
Biography. 2. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. pp. 90–97. ISBN 978-0-
684-10114-9.
Partington, J. R. (1964) History of
Chemistry; vol. 4. London: Macmillan;
pp. 142–77
External links
Wikisource has the text of a 1911
Encyclopædia Britannica article about
Jöns Jacob Berzelius.
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