Not so Gustaf Ekeberg

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Not so Gustaf Ekeberg

Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (born January 15, 1767 in Karlskrona , † February 11, 1813 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish naturalist and chemist .

Life

Ekeberg studied at Uppsala University and received his doctorate in 1788 with a thesis on vegetable oils .

Ekeberg was interested in many things. From 1794 he taught chemistry in Uppsala, with a focus on the analysis of minerals. In 1801 he discovered the element tantalum as a component of yttrotantalite .

Individual evidence

  1. Origin of the element names. ( Memento from January 21, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Anders Gustaf Ekeberg . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 284 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).