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Swedish chemist and mineralogist

Torbern 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.

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Was a German chemist awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for Torbern Olof Bergman.

Torbern Bergman was born in in the royal demesne of Katrineberg, south of Mariestad in Vestergötland, Sweden, the son of Barthold Bergman and Sara Hägg.

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This book tells the story of two of the most important figures in the history of chemistry.

Bergman was the first chemist to use the A, B, C, etc., system of notation for chemical species.

Early life and education

Torbern was born on 20 March 1735, the son of Barthold Bergman and Sara Hägg. He enrolled at the University of Uppsala at age 17.

His father wished him to read either law or divinity, while he himself was anxious to study mathematics and natural science; in the effort to please both himself and his father, he overworked himself and harmed his health. During a period of enforced abstinence from study, he amused himself with field botany and entomology.

He was able to send Linnaeus specimens of several new kinds of insects, and in 1756 he succeeded in proving that, contrary