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| x Pierre Curie |
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Polonium |
Pierre Curie (15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Maria Skłodowska-Curie,...
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| Radium | |||
| x Marie Curie |
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Polonium |
Marie Skłodowska Curie (November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes, and the...
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| x Hennig Brand |
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Phosphorus |
Hennig Brand(t) (c. 1630 – c. 1710) was a merchant and alchemist in Hamburg, Germany who discovered phosphorus around 1669.
The circumstances of Brand's birth are unknown. Some sources describe his origins as humble and indicate that he had been an...
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| x Georg Brandt | Cobalt |
Georg Brandt (26 June 1694 – 29 April 1768), was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist who discovered cobalt (c.1735). He was the first person to discover a metal unknown in ancient times.
Brandt was born in Riddarhyttan, Skinnskatteberg parish,...
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| x Antonio de Ulloa | Platinum |
Antonio de Ulloa (12 January 1716 – 3 July 1795) was a Spanish general, explorer, author, astronomer, colonial administrator and the first Spanish governor of Louisiana. He was born in Seville, the son of an economist.
Ulloa entered the navy in 1733...
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| x Axel Fredrik Cronstedt | Nickel |
Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (/kroonstet/ December 23 1722 – August 19 1765) was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist who discovered nickel in 1751 as a mining expert with the Bureau of Mines. Cronstedt described it as kupfernickel (the devil's copper...
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| x Joseph Black |
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Magnesium |
Joseph Black (16 April 1728 – 6 December 1799) was a Scottish physician, physicist, and chemist, known for his discoveries of latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide. He was a founder of thermochemistry who developed many pre-thermodynamics...
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| x Henry Cavendish |
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Hydrogen |
Henry Cavendish, FRS (10 October 1731 - 24 February 1810) was a British scientist noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper...
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| x Carl Wilhelm Scheele |
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Oxygen |
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist. Isaac Asimov called him "hard-luck Scheele" because he made a number of chemical discoveries before others who are generally given the credit. For...
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| Chlorine | |||
| Barium | |||
| Molybdenum | |||
| x Martin Heinrich Klaproth |
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Uranium |
Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1 December 1743 – 1 January 1817) was a German chemist.
Klaproth was born in Wernigerode. During a large portion of his life he followed the profession of an apothecary. After acting as assistant in pharmacies at...
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| Zirconium | |||
| x Arthur Wahl | Plutonium |
Arthur Wahl (September 8, 1917 – April 2006) was an American chemist who, as a PhD student of Glenn T. Seaborg at UC Berkeley, first isolated plutonium in February 1941. He also worked on the Manhattan Project.
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| x Glenn T. Seaborg |
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Plutonium |
Glenn Theodore Seaborg (Swedish: Glenn Teodor Sjöberg; April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements," contributed to the...
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| Californium | |||
| x Edwin McMillan |
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Plutonium |
Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate credited with being the first ever to produce a transuranium element. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951.
McMillan was born...
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| x Joseph W. Kennedy | Plutonium |
Joseph William Kennedy (May 30, 1916 – May 5, 1957) was an American scientist credited with being a co-discoverer of plutonium along with Glenn T. Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, and Arthur Wahl.
Born in Nacogdoches, Texas, Kennedy attended Stephen F....
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| x Albert Ghiorso |
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Einsteinium |
Albert Ghiorso (born July 15, 1915) is an American nuclear scientist who helped discover numerous chemical elements on the periodic table.
He was born in Vallejo, California and grew up in Alameda, California. As a teenager, he built radio circuitry...
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| Californium | |||
| x Joseph Norman Lockyer |
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Helium |
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, FRS (17 May 1836 – 16 August 1920) was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered for being the founder...
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| x Pierre Jules César Janssen |
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Helium |
Pierre Jules César Janssen (22 February 1824 – 23 December 1907) was a French astronomer who, along with the English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gas helium.
Janssen was born in Paris and studied mathematics and...
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| x Johan August Arfwedson |
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Lithium |
Johan August Arfwedson (12 January 1792 – 28 October 1841) was a Swedish chemist who discovered the chemical element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.
Arfwedson belonged to a wealthy bourgeois family, the son of the wholesale merchant and...
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| x Louis Nicolas Vauquelin |
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Beryllium |
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (16 May 1763 - 14 November 1829), was a French pharmacist and chemist.
Vauquelin was born at Saint-André-d'Hébertot in Normandy, France. His first acquaintance with chemistry was gained as laboratory assistant to an...
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| Chromium | |||
| x Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac |
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Boron |
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (also Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac, 6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for two laws related to gases, and for his work on alcohol-water mixtures, which led to the degrees Gay...
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| x Louis Jacques Thénard |
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Boron |
Louis Jacques Thénard (4 May 1777 in the village of La Louptière, Aube - 21 June 1857 in Paris), was a French chemist.
His father, a poor peasant, managed to have him educated at the academy of Sens, and sent him at the age of sixteen to study...
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| x Daniel Rutherford |
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Nitrogen |
Professor Daniel Rutherford (3 November 1749 – 15 November 1819) was a Scottish chemist and physician who is most famous for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772.
When Joseph Black was studying the properties of carbon dioxide, he found that a candle...
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| x Henri Moissan |
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Fluorine |
Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan (September 28, 1852 – February 20, 1907) was a French chemist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds.
The family Moissan originated from Toulouse and moved to...
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| x Morris Travers | Neon |
Morris William Travers (January 24, 1872 Kensington, London–August 25, 1961, Stroud, Gloucestershire), the founding director of the Indian Institute of Science, was an English chemist who worked along with Sir William Ramsay in the discovery of...
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| Krypton | |||
| x William Ramsay |
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Neon |
Sir William Ramsay, KCB (2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" ...
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| Argon | |||
| Krypton | |||
| x Humphry Davy |
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Sodium |
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor. He is probably best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the...
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| Potassium | |||
| Calcium | |||
| x Hans Christian Ørsted |
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Aluminium |
Hans Christian Ørsted (often rendered Oersted in English; 14 August 1777 - 9 March 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist who is most widely known for observing that electric currents induce magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism...
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| x Jöns Jakob Berzelius |
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Silicon |
Friherre Jöns Jacob Berzelius (20 August 1779 – 7 August 1848) was a Swedish chemist. He worked out the modern technique of chemical formula notation, and is together with John Dalton, Antoine Lavoisier, and Robert Boyle considered a father of...
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| Selenium | |||
| x John William Strutt |
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Argon |
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh OM (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered the element argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered...
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| x Lars Fredrik Nilson |
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Scandium |
Lars Fredrik Nilson (14 May 1840 – 27 May 1899) was a Swedish chemist who discovered scandium in 1879.
Nilson was born in Skönberga parish in Östergötland, Sweden. His father, Nikolaus, was a farmer. The family moved to Gotland when Lars Fredrik was...
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| x William Gregor |
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Titanium |
William Gregor (25 December 1761 – 11 June 1817) was the British clergyman and mineralogist who discovered the elemental metal titanium.
He was born in Trewarthenick, Cornwall, the son of Francis Gregor and Mary Copley and the brother of Francis...
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| x Andrés Manuel del Río |
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Vanadium |
Andrés Manuel del Río Fernández (Madrid, 10 November 1764 — Mexico City, 23 March 1849) was a Spanish–Mexican scientist and naturalist who discovered the chemical element vanadium.
Andrés del Río studied analytical chemistry and metallurgy in Spain,...
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| x Torbern Bergman |
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Manganese |
Torbern Olof Bergman (March 20, 1735 Katrineberg, Sweden, – July 8, 1784 Medevi, Sweden) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published....
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| x Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran |
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Gallium |
Paul Émile (François) Lecoq de Boisbaudran (18 April 1838 – 28 May 1912) was a French chemist born in Cognac. In 1858 he joined the family winemaking business, but a year later was working as a chemist.
In 1874 he wrote Spectres lumineux: spectres...
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| x Clemens Winkler |
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Germanium |
Clemens Alexander Winkler (December 26, 1838 – October 8, 1904) was a German chemist who discovered the element germanium in 1886, solidifying Dmitri Mendeleev's theory of periodicity.
Winkler was born in 1838 in Freiberg, Kingdom of Saxony the son...
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| x Geber |
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Arsenic |
Geber is the Latinized form of "Jabir", with the full name of Abu Musa Jābir ibn Hayyān al azdi (Arabic: جابر بن حيان) (born c. 721 in Tus–died c. 815 in Kufa), a prominent polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer,...
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| Antimony | |||
| Bismuth | |||
| x Johan Gottlieb Gahn |
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Selenium |
Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745 – 1818) was a Swedish chemist and metallurgist who discovered manganese in 1774.
Gahn studied in Uppsala 1762-1770 and became acquainted with chemsists Torbern Bergman och Carl Wilhelm Scheele. 1770 he settled in Falun,...
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| x Leopold Gmelin |
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Bromine |
Leopold Gmelin (2 August 1788 – 13 April 1853) was a German chemist.
Gmelin was the son of Johann Friedrich Gmelin. He studied medicine and chemistry at Göttingen, Tübingen and Vienna, and in 1813 began to lecture on chemistry at Heidelberg, where...
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| x Antoine Jérôme Balard |
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Bromine |
Antoine Jérôme Balard (30 September 1802 – 30 April 1876) was a French chemist and the discoverer of bromine.
Born at Montpellier, he started as an apothecary, but taking up teaching he acted as chemical assistant at the faculty of sciences of his...
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| x Johan Gadolin |
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Yttrium |
Johan Gadolin (5 June 1760 – 15 August 1852) was a Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist. Gadolin discovered the chemical element yttrium. He was also the founder of Finnish chemistry research, as the second holder of the Chair of Chemistry,...
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| x Gustav Kirchhoff |
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Rubidium |
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. He coined the term ...
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| x Robert Bunsen |
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Rubidium |
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (31 March 1811 – 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and with Gustav Kirchhoff he discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861). Bunsen developed several gas...
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| x William Cruickshank | Strontium |
William Cruickshank (died 1810 or 1811) was a Scottish military surgeon and chemist, and professor of chemistry at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He is often confused with William Cumberland Cruikshank.
William Cruickshank was awarded a...
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| x Charles Hatchett |
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Niobium |
Charles Hatchett FRS (2 January 1765 – 10 March 1847) was an English chemist who discovered the element niobium.
Hatchett was born, raised, and lived in London. On 24 March 1787, he married Elizabeth Collick at St Martin's-in-the-Fields, with issue...
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| x Carlo Perrier | Technetium | ||
| x Emilio G. Segrè |
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Technetium |
Emilio Gino Segrè (1 February 1905 – 22 April 1989) was an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate in physics, who with Owen Chamberlain, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle.
Segrè was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Tivoli, near...
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| x Jędrzej Śniadecki |
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Ruthenium |
Jędrzej Śniadecki (archaic English: Andrew Sniadecki; November 30, 1768 – May 12, 1838) was a Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist. His achievements include the creation of modern Polish terminology in the field of chemistry.
Śniadecki...
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| x William Hyde Wollaston |
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Rhodium |
William Hyde Wollaston FRS (6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering two chemical elements and for developing a way to process platinum ore.
Wollaston was born in East Dereham, Norfolk, the...
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| Palladium | |||
| x Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann | Cadmium |
Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann (20 January 1765 – 1 September 1846) was a German chemist who independently discovered cadmium in 1817.
Cadmium was discovered in 1817 by a physician, Friedrich Stromeyer (1776–1835). The element was first found in the...
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| x Friedrich Strohmeyer |
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Cadmium |
Friedrich Stromeyer (1776 - 1835) was a German chemist. Stromeyer received his degree from the University of Gottingen in 1800. He was then on the staff of the university and was also an inspector of apothecaries.
He received his MD doctorate in...
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| x Sigurd Hofmann | Ununbium | ||
| x Victor Ninov | Ununbium |
Victor Ninov (Bulgarian: Виктор Нинов) is a former researcher in the nuclear chemistry group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) who was alleged to have fabricated the evidence used to claim the creation of ununoctium and ununhexium ....
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