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Torbern Bergman
1784Jul, 8

Torbern Bergman

Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1735)
Torbern Olaf (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.

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