Abraham Langlet

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Nils Abraham Langlet (9 July 1868 – 30 March 1936; known by his second given name) was a Swedish chemist.[1]

Biography

Langlet was born in Södertälje, Sweden. He was the son of architect Emil Victor Langlet (1824–1898) and his wife, author Clara Mathilda Ulrika Clementine Söderén (1832–1904). His brothers included author Valdemar Langlet (1872–1960).[2][3]

From 1886 to 1896, he studied chemistry under Per Teodor Cleve (1840–1905) at Uppsala University, where he became a philosophy graduate in 1888, Philosophy Licentiate in 1893 and 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

Organic Chemistry.[4]

In 1895, while working with Cleve in Uppsala, he made the independent discovery of the element

, Sweden.

References

  1. ^ "Nils Abraham Langlet". Nordisk familjebok. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  2. ^ "Langlet, släkt". riksarkivet.se. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  3. ^ "Valdemar Langlet". vskg.nu. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  4. ^ "Per Theodor Cleve". Soylent Communications. Retrieved January 1, 2019.