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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 custom…

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science · Swedish chemist (1779–1848) · chemist · non-fiction writer · university teacher · physician · pharmacist · also Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Berzelius J J, Johan Jakob Berzelius, Johann Jakob Berzelius, Jacob Berzelius, Jons Jacob Berzelius

Born 20 August 1779 · Died 7 August 1848 · Q151911

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Jun 1836Award
Won Copley Medal (1836).
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Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1835).
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2025· 1 entry

Nov 21, 2025Documented record77% confidence

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Nature: The Letters of Jöns Jacob Berzelius and Christian Friedrich Schönbein, 1836–1847

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1939· 1 entry

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His portrait appeared on a series of postage stamps commemorating the bicentenary of the founding of the Swedish Academy of Sciences

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1898· 1 entry

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The Swedish Academy of Sciences opened the Berzelius Museum in honor of Berzelius

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1890· 1 entry

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A fairly prominent street in Gothenburg was named Berzeliigatan (Berzelii street) in his honour

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1852· 1 entry

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Stockholm, Sweden, built a public park and statue, both to honor Berzelius

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1850· 1 entry

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And named after him by James Dwight Dana

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1848· 2 entries

Aug 7, 1848Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1848-08-07.

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“Un laboratorio ordenado significa un químico perezoso.”

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1842· 1 entry

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Received the honor Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts

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1840· 2 entries

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Berzelius was named Knight of the Order of Leopold

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1840Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Although he preferred "bilifulvin" (yellow/red) over "bilirubin" (red)

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1838· 1 entry

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After Mulder observed that all proteins seemed to have the same empirical formula and came to the erroneous conclusion that they might be composed of a single type of very large molecule

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1837· 2 entries

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Was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, on chair number 5

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Jan 1, 1837Documented record84% confidence

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Career landmark: seat 5 of the Swedish Academy (1837–1848).

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1836· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1836Documented record84% confidence

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Won Copley Medal (1836).

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1836Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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With the citation "For his systematic application of the doctrine of definite proportions to the analysis of mineral bodies, as contained in his Nouveau Systeme de Mineralogie, and in other of his works

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1835· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1835Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1835).

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1835Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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At the age of 56, he married Elizabeth Poppius, the 24-year-old daughter of a Swedish cabinet minister

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1833· 1 entry

1833Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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To describe organic compounds which shared identical empirical formulas but which differed in overall molecular weight, the larger of the compounds being described as "polymers" of the smallest

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1828· 1 entry

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Friedrich Wöhler accidentally obtained urea, an organic compound, by heating ammonium cyanate

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1827· 1 entry

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Became correspondent of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, and in 1830 associate member

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1824· 1 entry

1824Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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But pure zirconium was not produced until 1925, by Anton Eduard van Arkel and Jan Hendrik de Boer

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1821· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1821Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Commander of the Order of Vasa (1821).

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1820· 1 entry

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Was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society

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1818· 3 entries

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Berzelius was elected the Academy's secretary and held the post until 1848

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1818Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Berzelius had a nervous breakdown, said to be due to the stress of his work

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1818Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Berzelius was ennobled by King Carl XIV Johan

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1816· 1 entry

1816Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac demonstrated that prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide) contains only hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen, and no oxygen

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1815· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1815Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Knight of the Order of the Polar Star (1815).

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1813· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1813Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1813).

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1812· 2 entries

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Berzelius traveled to London, England, including Greenwich to meet with prominent British scientists of the time

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1812Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Bernard Courtois proved that iodine is an element

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1810· 2 entries

1810Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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That living things work by some mysterious "vital force", a hypothesis called vitalism

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Jan 1, 1810Documented record76% confidence

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“A tidy laboratory is a sign of a lazy chemist.”

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1808· 3 entries

1808Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Berzelius discovered that lactic acid occurs in muscle tissue, not just in milk

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1808Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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1808Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And served from 1818 as its principal functionary

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1807· 1 entry

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Berzelius was appointed professor in chemistry and pharmacy at the Karolinska Institute

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1800· 1 entry

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Berzelius learned about Alessandro Volta's electric pile, the first device that could provide a constant electric current (i

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1779· 1 entry

Aug 20, 1779Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1779-08-20.

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