Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (13 December 1780 – 24 March 1849) was a German chemist who is known best for work that was suggestive of the periodic law for the chemical elements , and for inventing the first lighter , which was known as the Döbereiner's lamp . He became a professor of chemistry and pharmacy for the University of Jena .
5-452: Döbereiner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780–1849), German chemist Johanna Döbereiner (1924–2000), Brazilian agronomist [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Döbereiner . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding
10-465: A coachman's son, Döbereiner had little opportunity for formal schooling. Thus, he was apprenticed to an apothecary, and began to read widely and to attend science lectures. He eventually became a professor for the University of Jena in 1810 and also studied chemistry at Strasbourg . In work published during 1829, Döbereiner reported trends in certain properties of selected groups of elements. For example,
15-543: Is also known for his discovery of furfural , for his work concerning the use of platinum as a catalyst, and for the invention of a lighter, known as Döbereiner's lamp . By 1828 hundreds of thousands of these lighters had been mass produced by the German manufacturer Gottfried Piegler in Schleiz . The German writer Goethe was a friend of Döbereiner, attended his lectures weekly, and used his theories of chemical affinities as
20-412: The average of the atomic masses of lithium and potassium was close to the atomic mass of sodium . A similar pattern was found with calcium , strontium , and barium ; with sulfur , selenium , tellurium ; and with chlorine , bromine , and iodine . Moreover, the densities for some of these triads had a similar pattern. These sets of elements became known as " Döbereiner's triads ". Döbereiner
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