Berzelius

American  

[ber-zee-lee-uhs, ber-sey-lee-oos] / bərˈzi li əs, bɛrˈseɪ liˌʊs /

noun

1. Jöns Jakob Baron, 1779–1848, Swedish chemist.

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Berzelius British  

/ bəˈziːlɪəs, bærˈseːliʊs /

noun

1. Baron Jöns Jakob (ˈjœns ˈjɑːkɔp). 1779–1848, Swedish chemist, who invented the present system of chemical symbols and formulas, discovered several elements, and determined the atomic and molecular weight of many substances

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Berzelius Scientific  

/ bər-zē′lē-əs /

1. Swedish chemist who is regarded as one of the founders of modern chemistry. Berzelius developed the concepts of the ion and of ionic compounds and made extensive determinations of atomic weights. In 1811 he introduced the classical system of chemical symbols, in which the names of elements are identified by one or two letters.

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Example Sentences

Funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Berzelius supercomputer was unveiled in 2021 at Linköping University featuring 60 of the fastest AI systems from Nvidia.

From Reuters • Jan. 24, 2023

In 1835, the Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius described a phenomenon in which certain substances could galvanize a chemical reaction.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2021

The proportions are wrong — chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius corrected many in the following two decades.

From Nature • Aug. 30, 2016

More than a century passed between the moment when the Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius purified silicon, in 1824, and the birth of the semiconductor industry.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 15, 2014

To indicate the number of atoms in a molecule, Berzelius employed a superscript notation, as in H2O.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson