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Johan August Arfwedson
Johan August Arfwedson
Born	12 January &#;() Sweden
Died	28 October &#;() (aged&#;49)
Nationality	Swedish
Alma&#;mater	University of Uppsala
Known&#;for	Discovered lithium
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry

Johan August Arfwedson (12 January &#; 28 October ) was a Swedishchemist who discovered the chemical elementlithium in by isolating it as a salt.

Life and work

Arfwedson belonged to a wealthy bourgeois family, the son of the wholesale merchant and factory owner Jacob Arfwedson and his spouse, Anna Elisabeth Holtermann. The younger Arfwedson matriculated as a student at the University of Uppsala in (at the time, matriculating at a young age was common for aristocratic and wealthy students), completed a degree in Law in and a second degree in mineralogy in In the latter year, he received an unpaid position in the Royal Board of Mines, where he advanced to the position of notary (s