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Who gave a blow to vital force theory.


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Berzelius (1808) defined organic chemistry as the chemistry of substances found in living matter and gave the vital force theory. Synthesis of urea, the first organic compound synthesized in the laboratory by Wohler, gave the death blow to the vital force theory.


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