Eilhard Mitscherlich

1794-1863

 

  He was a German chemist, who is perhaps best remembered today for his law of isomorphism (1819), which states that substances of analogous composition and structure may substitute similar elements. This relationship was used by Berzelius in early attempts to assign relative masses to the elements which led to a successful creation of the periodic table by Mendeleev and Meyer half a century later.  
 


  1. Photographs in the Deutsches Museum in München, Germany
 

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