| Lavoisier
may have been the leader of the chemical revolution that led to the
new chemistry, but Berzelius was the "organizer of the science"
(6). His research
was done at the college of medicine in Stockholm, Sweden. His most
important work, done in the period 1807 to 1826, was the determination
of accurate atomic
weights. He argued that letters should be used for chemical symbols;
nearly all those he suggested are in use today. His electrochemical
investigations led to the dualistic
theory of chemical combination. He edited a popular journal, Jahresberichte,
through which he became the "veritable law-giver of chemistry"
(7).
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