5 lives in this collection worked in analytical chemistry, from 1778 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: chemistry, electrochemistry, organic chemistry. All fields
French chemist and physicist who established the uniform expansion of gases and the law of combining volumes, isolated boron, named iodine and cyanogen, and founded precise volumetric analysis.
chemistry, physics, analytical chemistry
Swedish chemist who measured accurate atomic weights, introduced modern chemical symbols, discovered cerium, selenium and thorium, and named isomerism and catalysis.
chemistry, electrochemistry, mineralogy
Chemist who synthesized urea from ammonium cyanate, first isolated aluminium, beryllium and yttrium, and led the Göttingen chemical laboratory for 46 years.
organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry
Chemist who made organic analysis routine, created the research-teaching laboratory at Giessen, and founded agricultural chemistry.
organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, agricultural chemistry
Experimental chemist who founded spectral analysis with Kirchhoff, discovered caesium and rubidium, and made gas analysis, photochemistry and calorimetry quantitative.
chemistry, analytical chemistry, spectroscopy