Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner

Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner 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.

13 December 1780

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Born in the same month (December 1780): Mary Somerville