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About Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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. He is known in Sweden as the "Father of Swedish Chemistry". During his lifetime he did not customarily use his first given name, and was universally known simply as Jacob Berzelius.
Everything about Jöns Jacob Berzelius →- Occupation
- chemist, non-fiction writer, university teacher, physician
- Position held
- seat 5 of the Swedish Academy
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Born
- August 20, 1779
- Died
- August 7, 1848