Today's anniversary of Jon Jacob Berzelius birth is being celebrated with a series of videos posted on YouTube. The Periodic Table of Videos team (PeriodicVideos) will post 24 videos to the social media site, uploading one clip for every hour of the day as it passes. Read more
Jöns Jacob Berzelius (20 August 1779 - 7 August 1848) was a Swedish chemist. He worked out the modern technique of chemical formula notation, and is together with John Dalton, Antoine Lavoisier, and Robert Boyle considered a father of modern chemistry. Read more