How To Use Berzelius In A Sentence
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Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779 – 1848) was one of Humphry Davy's contemporaries and rivals.
Berzelius, Jöns Jakob
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Berzelius introduced the name catalysis instead, with the active but unconsumed substance being termed the catalytic substance or catalyst, and the cause underlying the phenomena catalytic force.
Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture
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Jacob Berzelius immediately denominated chlorine, bromine, and iodine as ‘halogens’ or elements that form salts.
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The word isomerism was coined by Berzelius to express this anomalous condition of things, which seemed to negative the most fundamental truths of chemistry.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
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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
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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
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Berzelius was also a great organizer of men and institutions.
Berzelius, Jöns Jakob
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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
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Jacob Berzelius and Justus von Liebig, had advocated a chemical basis for life.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
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Berzelius overlooked - accounts only uncertainly for the promotion of sulphurous acid oxidation by stating that the oxygen would be supplied to the oxidizable substance by the oxides of nitrogen in a more convenient or suitable form
Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture
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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
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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
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Berzelius coined the name kakodyl (later changed to cacodyl) for the dimethylarsinyl radical ((CH 3) 2 As) from the Greek kakodes (evil-smelling) and hyle (matter).
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The full value of the discovery was recognized at once by Berzelius, who, in a letter to the authors of the paper, proposed that they should call their radical proin or orthrin (the dawn of day), for the reason that the assumption of its existence might be likened to the dawn of a new day in chemistry.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882
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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
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The feat of imitating nature in the laboratory was a truly exciting experience — as Wöhler expressed it in his often-quoted letter to Berzelius: "I can no longer, so to speak, hold my chemical water and must tell you that I can make urea without needing a kidney, whether of man or dog; the ammonium salt of cyanic acid is urea.
Wöhler, Friedrich
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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
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Your present lecturer is a modest follower in Berzelius's footsteps.
Theodore W. Richards - Nobel Lecture
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The bond which above all others had prevented a general application of the Berzelius theory is now commonly known as the covalent bond.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 - Presentation Speech