Jeremias Benjamin Richter

✶March 10, 1762

†May 4, 1807

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Jeremias Benjamin Richter was a German chemist. He was born at Hirschberg in Silesia, became a mining official at Breslau in 1794, and by 1800 was appointed assessor to the department of mines and chemist to the royal porcelain factory at Berlin, where he died. He is known for introducing the term stoichiometry.

German chemist (1762-1807)

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