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Torbern Bergman

Swedish chemist

Died when: 49 years 110 days (591 months)
Star Sign: Pisces

 

Torbern Bergman

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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