Did IUPAC rule exclusively in favor of the name beryllium
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Martin Heinrich Klaproth
Martin Heinrich Klaproth was a German chemist. He trained and worked for much of his life as an apothecary, moving in later life to the university. His shop became the second-largest apothecary in Berlin, and the most productive artisanal chemical research center in Europe.
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science · German chemist (1743–1817) · chemist · pharmacist · university teacher · mineralogist · scientist · inventor · also Martin Heinrich Klaproth, M. H. Klaproth, Klaproth M H, Heinrich Klaproth, Martin Heinrich Klapproth, Klaproth
Born 1 December 1743 · Died 1 January 1817 · Q160196
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1828· 1 entry
Independently by Friedrich Wöhler and Antoine Bussy
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1823· 1 entry
Botanist Carl Sigismund Kunth published a genus of flowering plants (belonging to the family Loasaceae), from Central America as Klaprothia in his honour
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1817· 1 entry
Died 1817-01-01.
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1810· 1 entry
Was selected to be the professor of chemistry
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1808· 1 entry
Humphry Davy became the first to successfully isolate the pure element
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Klaproth moved the equipment from his apothecary laboratory into the new building
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1800· 1 entry
Became the salaried director of the Berlin Academy of Sciences
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1743· 1 entry
Born 1743-12-01.
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