Eilhard Mitscherlich (7 January 1794 – 28 August 1863) was a German chemist, who is perhaps best remembered today for his law of isomorphism (1819), which states that compounds crystallizing together probably have similar structures and compositions. This relationship was used by Berzelius in early attempts to assign relative masses to the elements.
Read more about Eilhard Mitscherlich: Early Life and Work, Isomorphism, Later Work and Last Years, Papers, Further Reading