Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic (died 1817)

Martin Heinrich Klaproth

German chemist (1743–1817)

Martin Heinrich Klaproth was a German chemist. He trained and worked for much of his life as an apothecary, moving in later life to the university. His shop became the second-largest apothecary in Berlin, and the most productive artisanal chemical research center in Europe.