page_title: List of Uppsala University people
section_title: Chemistry, geology and mineralogy
hierarchical_section_title: List of Uppsala University people / Natural sciences and medicine / Chemistry, geology and mineralogy
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people affiliated with Uppsala University.
context_section_description: Johan Gottschalk Wallerius (1709–1785), chemist and mineralogist
  Torbern Bergman (1735–1784), chemist
  Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745–1818), mineralogist, discoverer of manganese
  Johan Gadolin (1760–1852), chemist, physicist and mineralogist
  Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767–1813), chemist, discoverer of tantalum
  Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848), physician and chemist, considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry; invented modern chemical notation and discovered the elements silicon, selenium, thorium, and cerium
  Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787–1845), chemist, discoverer of vanadium
  Johan August Arfwedson (1792–1841), chemist, discoverer of lithium
  Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840–1899), chemist, discoverer of scandium
  Per Teodor Cleve (1840–1905), chemist and geologist
  Gerard De Geer (1848–1943), geologist who made significant contributions to quaternary geology
  Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927), physicist and chemist; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1903
  Abraham Langlet, chemist who discovered helium in 1895 together with Per Teodor Cleve (independently from William Ramsay) and defined its atomic weight correctly; later professor at the Chalmers University of Technology
  V. Walfrid Ekman (1874–1954), oceanographer (Ph.D. 1902)
  Theodor (The) Svedberg (1884–1971), chemist; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1926
  Filip Hjulström (1902–1982), geographer (Professor 1944)
caption: Jöns Jakob Berzelius
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