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  2. Martin Heinrich Klaproth - Wikipedia

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    Klaproth discovered uranium (1789) [6] and zirconium (1789). He was also involved in the discovery or co-discovery of titanium (1795), strontium (1793), cerium (1803), and chromium (1797) and confirmed the previous discoveries of tellurium (1798) and beryllium (1798). [7] [8] Klaproth was a member and director of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. [2]

  3. Tellurium - Wikipedia

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    Tellurium is a chemical element; it has symbol Te and atomic number 52. ... In 1896, that tailing was discovered to be calaverite, a telluride of gold, ...

  4. Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein - Wikipedia

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    Even articles by Mary Elvira Weeks on the discovery of tellurium, published in the Journal of Chemical Education in 1932, [5] and 1935 [6] quote two different locations of his birth: one in Vienna, Archduchy of Austria and the other Hermannstadt, Principality of Transylvania (present-day Sibiu, Romania). A newer biography on the topic makes ...

  5. Chalcogen - Wikipedia

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    Oxygen was discovered by Joseph Priestley in 1774 when he focused sunlight on a sample of mercuric oxide and collected the resulting gas. Carl Wilhelm Scheele had also created oxygen in 1771 by the same method, but Scheele did not publish his results until 1777. [2] Tellurium was first discovered in 1783 by Franz Joseph Müller von Reichenstein ...

  6. Pál Kitaibel - Wikipedia

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    As well as studying the flora and hydrography of Hungary, in 1789 he discovered the element tellurium, but later gave the credit to Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740–1825) who had actually discovered it in 1782.

  7. Peter Higgs, scientist who discovered the ‘god particle ...

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    Peter Higgs, scientist who discovered the ‘god particle’, dies at 94. Andrew Griffin. April 9, 2024 at 3:35 PM.

  8. Edward Divers - Wikipedia

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    Using this material he later discovered tellurium sulfoxide and developed a new method for the quantitative separation of tellurium from selenium. These and other papers on tellurium and selenium were published in the Journal of the Chemical Society during 1883–1885. There he published more than 20 other paper within a short period of 1884 ...

  9. Selenium - Wikipedia

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    Selenium (from Ancient Greek σελήνη (selḗnē) 'moon') was discovered in 1817 by Jöns Jacob Berzelius, who noted the similarity of the new element to the previously discovered tellurium (named for the Earth). Selenium is found in metal sulfide ores, where it substitutes for sulfur.