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Torbern Bergman

1735 - 1784

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Torbern Olof Bergman (KVO) (20 March 1735 – 8 July 1784) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published. Bergman was the first chemist to use the A, B, C, etc., system of notation for chemical species. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Torbern Bergman is the 325th most popular chemist (down from 314th in 2019), the 264th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 270th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Swedish Chemist.

Torbern Bergman was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist who is most famous for his discovery of the element thorium in 1828.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Torbern Bergman ranks 325 out of 602. Before him are William Henry Perkin, Dan Shechtman, Tapputi, Alexander Butlerov, Charles Friedel, and Roger Y. Tsien. After him are Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Louis Camille Maillard, Kazimierz Fajans, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Tim Hunt, and Karl Friedrich Mohr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Torbern Bergman ranks 11. Before him are François Christophe de Kellermann, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Ibrahim Bey, August Ludwig von Schlözer, and Caspar Friedrich Wolff. After him are Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, John Carroll, Paul Revere, Ahmad al-Tijani, Johann Karl August Musäus, and Princess Maria Christina of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1784, Torbern Bergman ranks 8. Before him are Count of St. Germain, Phillis Wheatley, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Samuel Johnson, Giovanni Battista Martini, and Junípero Serra. After him are Otto Friedrich Müller, César-François Cassini de Thury, Anders Johan Lexell, Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia, Abraham Trembley, and Jean-François Séguier.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Torbern Bergman ranks 264 out of 1,879. Before him are Yngwie Malmsteen (1963), Odd Nerdrum (1944), Henrik Larsson (1971), Ludvig Nobel (1831), Lars Vilks (1946), and Lennart Bernadotte (1909). After him are Camilla Läckberg (1974), Estrid of the Obotrites (979), Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken (1616), Agne Simonsson (1935), Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland (1889), and Catherine Stenbock (1535).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Torbern Bergman ranks 15. Before him are Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Georg Brandt (1694), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Per Teodor Cleve (1840), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), and Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767). After him are Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), Anders Jahan Retzius (1742), Anna Sundström (1785), and Peter Jacob Hjelm (1746).

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