"Discoverer of chemical elements"

Albert Ghiorso male, 94 years old: Discovererofchemicalelements, scientist, periodic table, American, chemical element, American nuclear scientist; Albert Ghiorso (b. 15 July 1915) is an American nuclear scientist who helped discover numerous chemical elements on the periodic table.

Glenn Theodore Seaborg male, deceased (1999) (Ishpeming, Michigan): fermium, National Commission on Excellence in Education, actinide series, University of California, Berkeley chancellor, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Franck Report…Periodic Table of the Elements, National Medal of Science recipient, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Discovererofchemicalelements, University of California, Berkeley alumni; Glenn Seaborg worked his way through UCLA in a variety of ways - as stevedore, night watchman, apricot picker and linotype mechanic apprentice,...

Humphry Davy male, deceased (1829) (Guadeloupe): cornish, Jöns Jakob Berzelius, physicist, Berzelius, briton, English…Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, Fellow of the Royal Society, President of the Royal Society, Discovererofchemicalelements, chemical affinity; Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS (17 December 1778 - 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and physicist. He was born in Penzance, Cornwall, United...

Carl Wilhelm Scheele male, deceased (1786): from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, German, conduction, Discovererofchemicalelements, mercury poisoning, swedish…Chemical Treatise on Air and Fire; Carl Wilhelm Scheele (December 9,1742 - May 21, 1786) a German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist, born in Stralsund, Western Pomerania, Germany (at...

Peter Armbruster male, 78 years old: physicist, Hassium, ununbium, Meitnerium, roentgenium, darmstadtium…Darmstadt University of Technology, Technical University of Munich, University of Cologne, American Chemical Society, Discovererofchemicalelements; Peter Armbruster is a physicist at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) facility in Darmstadt, Germany, and is credited with d...

Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac male, deceased (1894): Davy Medal, gadolinium, Discovererofchemicalelements, belgian, nuclei, isotope…rare earth elements; Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (April 24, 1817 - April 15, 1894) was a Swiss chemist whose work with atomic weights suggested the possibility...

Jacob A. Marinsky male, deceased (2005): writer, Chemist, University at Buffalo alumni, Discovererofchemicalelements, American, University at Buffalo; Jacob A. Marinsky (1918 - September 1, 2005) was a chemist and writer who was the co-discoverer of the element promethium in 1944. He was born in...

William Crookes male, deceased (1919): Crookes tube, vacuum tube, buried at Brompton Cemetery, Royal College of Chemistry, Parapsychologist, spiritism…Alumni of Imperial College London, President of the Royal Society, Member of the Order of Merit, Discovererofchemicalelements, Order of Merit; Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was an English chemist and physicist. Sir William attended the Royal College of Ch...

Joseph Priestley male, deceased (1804): Yorkshireman, Kingdom of Britain, political philosophy, Grammarian, Theologian, Christian politics…Member of the Lunar Society, Criticism of religion, Fellow of the Royal Society, Discovererofchemicalelements; Joseph Priestley (March 13, 1733 (old style)–February 8, 1804) was a British natural philosopher, Dissenting clergyman, political theorist, th...

William Hyde Wollaston male, deceased (1828): physicist, Royal Society, FRS, English, From Norfolk, platinum…Discovererofchemicalelements, Fellow of the Royal Society, chemical element; William Hyde Wollaston FRS (August 6, 1766 - December 22, 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering two chemical...

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