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          6. Johan August Arfwedson

          Johan August Arfwedson

          Johan August Arfwedson

          Born12 January 1792 (1792-01-12)

          Sweden

          Died28 October 1841 (1841-10-29) (aged 49)
          NationalitySwedish
          Alma materUniversity of Uppsala
          Known forDiscovered lithium
          Scientific career
          FieldsChemistry

          Johan August Arfwedson (12 January 1792 – 28 October 1841) was a Swedishchemist who discovered the chemical elementlithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.

          Life and work

          Arfwedson belonged to a wealthy bourgeois family, the son of the wholesale merchant and factory owner Jacob Arfwedson and his spouse, Anna Elisabeth Holtermann. The younger Arfwedson matriculated as a student at the University of Uppsala in 1803 (at the time, matriculating at a young age was common for aristocratic and wealthy students), completed a degree in Law in 1809 and a second degree in mineralogy in 1812.

          In the latter year, he received an unpaid positio