Berzelius

Your present lecturer is a modest follower in Berzelius's footsteps.

Theodore W. Richards - Nobel Lecture 1966

In preparing a chemistry textbook in Swedish for his medical students (Lärboki Kemien, vol. 1, 1808), Berzelius began the series of experiments for which he became most famous — those definitively establishing that the elements in inorganic substances are bound together in definite proportions by weight (the law of constant proportions).

Berzelius, Jöns Jakob 2009

As a compensation the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gave him, in 1977, its highest honor, other than the Nobel Prize, the Berzelius

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010

Berzelius also applied his organizing abilities to mineralogy, where he classified minerals by their chemical composition rather than by their crystalline type, as had previously been done.

Berzelius, Jöns Jakob 2009

Buchner's experiments showed unequivocally that fermentation is a catalytic process caused by the action of enzymes, as had been suggested by Berzelius for all life processes, and Buchner called his extract zymase

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010

Berzelius was born into a well-educated Swedish family, but he experienced a difficult childhood because first his father and then his mother died.

Berzelius, Jöns Jakob 2009

Berzelius was also a great organizer of men and institutions.

Berzelius, Jöns Jakob 2009

Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779 – 1848) was one of Humphry Davy's contemporaries and rivals.

Berzelius, Jöns Jakob 2009

Jacob Berzelius and Justus von Liebig, had advocated a chemical basis for life.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010

Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men.

Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know 2010