Berzelius, Johan Jakob (Berze`lius, Johan Jakob) , Baron, a celebrated Swedish chemist, one of the creators of modern chemistry; instituted the chemical notation by symbols based on the notion of equivalents; determined the equivalents of a great number of simple bodies, such as cerium and silenium; discovered silenium, and shared with Davy the honour of propounding the electro-chemical theory; he ranks next to Linnæus as a man of science in Sweden (1779-1848).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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