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Previous | Home | Next"Berlin memorial plaques. At this site, in his apothecary 'Zum Bären,' Martin Heinrich Klaproth (Jan 12 1743-Jan 1 1817) lived and worked from 1780 until 1800. Member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin from 1788 and first Professor of Chemistry in the Berlin University which was founded in 1810. In this apothecary laboratory he discovered many chemical elements, among which were uranium in 1789. In 1799 he produced the first Prussian physician's manual."
