Martin Heinrich Klaproth (Person)
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
1743 AD - 1817 AD
German chemist who 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.
Klaproth was a major systematizer of analytical chemistry, and an independent inventor of gravimetric analysis.
His attention to detail and refusal to ignore discrepancies in results led to improvements in the use of apparatus. He was a major figure in understanding the composition of minerals and characterizing the elements.
Klaproth discovered
- uranium (1789)
zirconium (1789)
He was also involved in the discovery or co-discovery of
titanium (1792)
- strontium (1793)
- cerium (1803)
- chromium (1797)
He confirmed the previous discoveries of
- tellurium (1798)
- beryllium (1798)
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