Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 9
4. Childhood and early school years 13
5. Berzelius as a medical student 17
6. The young physician 20
7. Electrochemical experiments 21
8. The discovery of cerium 26
9. Berzelius appointed professor of chemistry 29
10. Studies on animal products 39
11. The analysis of inorganic material and the determination of atomic and equivalent weights 41
12. Organic analyses 55
13. Berzelius' chemical terminology and atomic symbols 57
14. Visit in London, 1812 65
15. The discovery of selenium 67
16. Early Swedish mineral chemistry 69
17. Co-workers 74
18. The discovery of lithium 83
19. The discovery of vanadium and thorium 84
20. Classification of the minerals 89
21. Visit to Paris, 1818-1819 91
22. Secretary of the Academy of Science 94
23. The blowpipe 99
24. Berzelius and Karolinska Institutet 103
25. Scientific writings, letters and travel memoirs 110
26. Pyruvic acid, organic radicals and chlorinated hydrocarbons 120
27. The concept of isomerism 126
28. Catalysis 127
29. Miscellaneous work and activities outside of chemistry 131
30. Berzelius' later years 138
31. Posthumous tribute 140
32. List of persons 175