George Brandt
By Adam Reedy
9/30/2014
Georg Brandt was born June 26, 1694 in Riddarhyttan, Sweden. Brandt was a professor of chemistry at Uppsala University, a director of the Council of Mines in Stockholm, and a warden of the Royal Mint. Brandt has been credited as the first person to discover an unknown ancient element. This was accomplished by his finding of cobalt in 1735. Later in life, Brandt devoted his work to disproving alchemy. He died at the age of 73 on April 29, 1768 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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