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        1. Swedish chemist, mineralogist, astronomer, physicist & geographer.
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          Torbern Bergman

          Swedish chemist and mineralogist

          Torbern Olof Bergman (KVO) (20 March 1735 – 8 July 1784) 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 species.

          Early life and education

          Torbern was born on 20 March 1735, the son of Barthold Bergman and Sara Hägg. He enrolled at the University of Uppsala at age 17.

          We know that Torbern O. Bergmann, a student of von Linné, had developed a Neptunistic earth theory based on biblical roots and that this.

          His father wished him to read either law or divinity, while he himself was anxious to study mathematics and natural science; in the effort to please both himself and his father, he overworked himself and harmed his health. During a period of enforced abstinence from study, he amused himself with field botany and entomology.

          He was able to send Linnaeus specimens of several new kinds of insects, and in 1756 he succeeded in proving that, contrary