Peter Thorstensen

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Danish physician and chemist who settled in Norway

Places

Denmark

was

Physician Chemist

Work field

Healthcare Science

Gender

Male

Birth

1752

Death

1792

Age

40 years

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Biography

Peter Thorstensen (1752–1792) was a Danish physician and chemist who settled in Norway.

He was born in Denmark to immigrants from Iceland, and studied medicine in Copenhagen. His doctoral thesis in 1775 examined medical use of quassin from the plant quassia amara. He was appointed as physician (Norwegian: bergmedicus) in Kongsberg, at the Kongsberg Silver Mines. From 1784 he lectured at the Kongsberg School of Mines, in chemistry, physics and mineralogy.

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