Wilhelm Hisinger

Wilhelm Hisinger
Wilhelm Hisinger in Nordisk familjebok
Born(1766-12-23)23 December 1766
Died28 June 1852(1852-06-28) (aged 85)
NationalitySwedish
Known forDiscovery of cerium
Scientific career
Fieldschemistry, physics, geology, mineralogy
Author abbrev. (botany)Hising.

Wilhelm Hisinger (23 December 1766 – 28 June 1852) was a Swedish physicist and chemist who in 1807, working in coordination with Jöns Jakob Berzelius, noted that in electrolysis any given substance always went to the same pole, and that substances attracted to the same pole had other properties in common.[1] This showed that there was at least a qualitative correlation between the chemical and electrical natures of bodies.

  1. ^ Berzelius, and Hisinger, W. (1803). In Neues allg. J. Chem. 1, 115-49 (reprinted in Ann. Phys. 27, 270-304 (1807).