Torbern Olof Bergman

See also: Bergmann

Torbern Olof Bergman , (born the March 20th 1735 with Katrineberg in the Westrogothie and deceased the July 7th 1784 with Medevi) was a chemist Swedish.

Biography

It is interested in several branches of sciences and became in 1766 professor of Chimie to the Université of Uppsala. He will be the professor of Carl Wilhelm Scheele, which will support it and make it possible this last to become member of the royal Académie of sciences of Sweden. Torbern Olof Bergman became member of the Royal Society the April 25th 1765.

One owes him several important discoveries, inter alia those of the Air fixes (Dioxide carbon), of the Oxalic acid , the hepatic Gaz (Hydrogen sulfide ). It reformed the Minéralogie by basing it on the chemical composition of the bodies, and observed the first the constant report/ratio of the geometrical shapes of the crystals with the nature of each substance. It recommended the use of the Chalumeau, of which it had used itself for its discoveries.

Condorcet and Felix Vicq d' Azyr pronounced its Eloge .

Works

  • physical Description of the ground , 1770
  • Analysis of iron , translated into French by Oil cake, 1783 Manual
  • of the mineralogist , translated by Jean Andre Mongez, 1784
  • Treated affinities , 1788
  • Opuscula physica and chimica , 1779 - 1790, translated partly by Louis-Bernard Guyton-Morveau, 1780

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