Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (born 1735)

Torbern Bergman

Swedish chemist and mineralogist

Torbern Olof Bergman (KVO) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published. Bergman was the first chemist to use the A, B, C, etc., system of notation for chemical…