Abraham Langlet

Chemist, Deceased Person

1868 – 1936

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Who was Abraham Langlet?

Nils Abraham Langlet was a Swedish chemist.

Langlet was born in Södertälje. From 1886 to 1896, he studied chemistry under Per Teodor Cleve at Uppsala University, where he obtained a doctorate in 1896, and was made docent in the same year. In 1899, he became lecturer in Chemistry and Chemical Technology at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, where he received a professorship in the same field in 1911. From 1926, when his professorship was divided, he was professor of Organic Chemistry.

In 1895, while working with Cleve in Uppsala, he made the independent discovery of the element helium in the mineral cleveite. Langlet was the first to correctly define its atomic weight. He died in Gothenburg.

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Born
Jul 9, 1868
Profession
Education
  • Uppsala University
Died
Mar 30, 1936

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on July 23, 2013

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