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{{Short description|German scientist (1873–1939)}}
[[File:Otto Berg (cropped).jpg|thumb|Photo of Otto Berg]]
'''Otto Berg''' (23 November 1874<ref>Geburtsregister Standesamt Berlin 11, Nr. 585/1874. The year of birth is often mistakenly given as 1873.</ref> – 1939) was a German scientist. He is one of the scientists credited with discovering [[rhenium]], the last element to be discovered having a stable isotope.
==Life==
Berg was born in [[Berlin]] as the son of the merchant Philipp Berg and his wife Jenny. From 1894 to 1898, Berg studied [[chemistry]] in Berlin, [[Heidelberg University|Heidelberg]] and [[University of Freiburg|Freiburg]]; in Freiburg he worked as an assistant at the Institute of Physics. In 1900, he married Julie Zuntz, a daughter of physiologist [[Nathan Zuntz]]; the couple had four children.<ref>Heiratsregister Standesamt Berlin 12a, Nr. 78/1900</ref> Between 1902 and 1911, he was a [[Privatdozent]] in [[University of Greifswald|Greifswald]]. He then became a partner at [[Siemens & Halske]] in Berlin-Charlottenburg.<ref>{{Webarchiv | url=https://archive.today/20130115041924/http://viatienen.be/college/new/downloads1011/lln/PS%20Fedichem/dispbiog_nl.cfm-ID=16.htm | date=2013 | text=''Short biography of Otto Berg'' (dutch)}}</ref> After the [[Nazi seizure of power]] he lost his job at Siemens in 1933 because of his Jewish descent, subsequently in 1938 he fled with his family to England, where he died in 1939.<ref>[https://familyberg.weebly.com/berg.html Website of the Berg family]</ref>
==Rhenium==
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