Karolinska Institutet Faculty - Jons Jacob Berzelius, Ivar Wickman, Ulf Von Euler, Ragnar Granit, Hans Rosling, Gustaf Retzius, Lars Leksell (Paperback)

Chapters: Jons Jacob Berzelius, Ivar Wickman, Ulf Von Euler, Ragnar Granit, Hans Rosling, Gustaf Retzius, Lars Leksell, Ewa Bjorling, Tomas Hokfelt, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Arne Ljungqvist, Sune Bergstrom, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Anders Retzius, Gunnar Von Heijne, Johan Wilhelm Dalman, Hans Christian Jacobaeus, Klas Karre, Goran Liljestrand, Goran K. Hansson, Carl Gustaf Bernhard, Viking Bjork, Torsten Sjogren, Karl Oskar Medin, Jan-Ake Gustafsson, Sten Grillner, Stephan Rossner. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 80. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Friherre Jons Jacob Berzelius (20 August 1779 7 August 1848) was a Swedish chemist. He worked out the modern technique of chemical formula notation, and is together with John Dalton, Antoine Lavoisier, and Robert Boyle considered a father of modern chemistry. He began his career as a physician but his researches in physical chemistry were of lasting significance in the development of the subject. He achieved much in later life as secretary of the Swedish Academy. He is known in Sweden as the Father of Swedish Chemistry. Berzelius was born at Vaversunda in Ostergotland in Sweden. He lost both his parents at an early age. He was taken care of by relatives in Linkoping where he attended the school today known as Katedralskolan. Thereafter he enrolled at the Uppsala University where he learned the profession of medical doctor from 1796 to 1801. He was taught chemistry by Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, the discoverer of tantalum. He worked as apprentice in a pharmacy and with a physician in the Medevi mineral springs. During this time he conducted analysis of the spring water. For his medical studies he examined the influence of galvanic current on several diseases and graduated as M.D. in 1802. He worked as physician near Stockholm until the mine owner...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2370166