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Chaldeans (Iraq),
C.5000 BC Silver Ag 47
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Egyptians,
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C.2100 BC Tin Sn 50 Egyptians, Incas
Egyptians,
C.1600 BC Antimony Sb 51
Chaldeans
Egyptians,
C.1500 BC Mercury Hg 80
Chinese, Greeks
C.1000 BC Lead Pb 82 Egyptians
Romans
Paracelsus
C.0 BC/AD Zinc Zn 30 (German Identified as a
alchemist and metal in 1526
physician)
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Inactivity
German monk
Basil Valentinus Described in
C.1500 AD Bismuth Bi 83 1500
Claude François French chemist
Geoffroy Identified in 1753
German
1669 AD Phosphorus P 15 Henning Brand
alchemist
South American
Indians
Spanish explorer
Pre 1700 Platinum Pt 78 Antonio de Ulloa and administrator
Identified in 1741
British chemist
Charles Wood
Identified in 1741
Swedish chemist
1735 Cobalt Co 27 Georg Brandt
& mineralogist
Axel Fredrik Swedish chemist
1751 Nickel Ni 28
Cronstedt & mineralogist
Scottish physicist
1755 Magnesium Mg 12 Joseph Black
& chemist
Henry
1766 Hydrogen H 1 English aristocrat
Cavendish
Daniel Scottish chemist
1772 Nitrogen N 7
Rutherford & physician
Swedish chemist
Karl Wilhelm
at Uppsala
Scheele
1772/4 Oxygen O 8 University
English chemist &
Joseph Priestley
philosopher
1774 Chlorine Cl 17 Scheele
Johann Gottlieb
1774 Manganese Mn 25 Swedish chemist
Gahn
Louis-Nicholas French
1780 Chromium Cr 24
Vauquelin pharmacist
1781 Molybdenum Mo 42 Peter Hjelm Swedish chemist
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Scottish
Adair Crawford physician
Discovery 1787
1787 Strontium Sr 38
Thomas Charles Identified 1791in
Hope Edinburgh
Davy Isolated 1808
Anders Gustaf
1802 Tantalum Ta 73 Swedish chemist
Ekeberg
English chemist &
William Hyde
1803 Rhodium Rh 45 physician
Wollaston
Cambridge
1803 Palladium Pd 46 Wollaston
Swedish chemist
Jöns Jacob & Swedish
1803 Cerium Ce 58 Berzelius & geologist
Wilhelm Hisinger At Uppsala
University
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Louis-Josef Gay-
Lussac & Louis- French chemists
1808 Boron B 5
Jacques Thenard
Davy
Polish chemist
Jedrzej Andrei Discovered 1808
Sniadecki at Vilno (not
confirmed)
1808 Ruthenium Ru 44
Russian chemist
Isolated 1844 at
Karl Klaus
Kazan State
University
1808 Barium Ba 56 Davy
Friedrich
German chemist
Strohmeyer
1817 Cadmium Cd 48 Karl Samuel
Leberecht German chemist
Hermann
1824 Silicon Si 14 Berzelius
German chemists
& German
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physicist at
Robert Bunsen &
1860 Caesium Cs 55 Heidelberg
Gustav Kirchhoff
University
Bunsen &
1861 Rubidium Rb 37
Kirchhoff
English chemist
1861 Thallium Tl 81 William Crookes
London
Ferdinand Reich
1863 Induim In 77 & Hieronymus German chemists
Richter
Pierre Jules French
César Janssen astronomer
1868 Helium He 2
Joseph Norman English
Lockyer astronomer
Dmitriy Ivanovich Russian chemist
Mendeleyev Predicted 1871
1871 Gallium Ga 31
Paul Émile Lecoq French chemist
de Boisbaudran Discovered 1875
Mendeleev Predicted 1871
1871 Scandium Sc 21 Swedish chemist
Lars Nilson
Discovered 1879
Mendeleyev Predicted 1871
German chemist
1871 Germanium Ge 32 Discovered 1886
Clemens Winkler
Freiburg
University
Mendeleyev Predicted 1871
1878 Holmium Ho 67
Marc Swiss chemists
Delafontaine & Geneva
Jacques-Louis
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Soret
Jean Charles
Swiss chemist
1878 Ytterbium Yb 70 Galissard de
Geneva
Marignac
1879 Samarium Sm 62 de Boisbaudran
Carl Auer
Austrian scientist
1885 Praseodymium Pr 59 Freiherr von
& inventor
Welsbach
1885 Neodymium Nd 60 von Welsbach
English physicist
John William
& Scottish
Strutt (Lord
1894 Argon Ar 18 chemist
Rayleigh) &
Cambridge & UC
William Ramsay
London
University
1895 Helium He 2 Ramsay
College London
Scottish &
Ramsay & Morris
1898 Krypton Kr 36 English chemists
William Travers
UC London
Ramsay &
1898 Neon Ne 10 UC London
Travers
Ramsay &
1898 Xenon Xe 54 UC London
Travers
Polish-French
physicist &
1898 Polonium Po 84 Marie Curie
chemist
Sorbonne, Paris
Marie & Pierre
1898 Radium Ra 88
Curie
French chemist
1899 Actinium Ac 89 André Debierne
Paris
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French chemist
Georges Urbain
Sorbonne, Paris
English chemist
1907 Lutetium Lu 71 Charles James University of New
Hampshire, USA
Austrian chemist
Karl Auer
Germany
Danish and
Hungarian
Dirk Coster &
1923 Hafnium Hf 72 chemists
György Hevesey
University of
Copenhagen
Walter Noddack,
1925 Rhenium Re 75 Ida Tacke & Otto Berlin, Germany
Carl Berg
Glenn T. Lawrence
1940 Plutonium Pu 94 Seaborg, Arthur Radiation Labs
C. Wahl, Joseph (LRL), University
W. Kennedy, of California,
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Ghiorso, Bernard
1955 Mendelevium Md 101 LRL, Berkeley
Harvey et al.
Joint Institute for
Nuclear JNIR, Dubna,
Research (JINR) USSR 1956
team
1956 Nobelium No 102 Ghiorso,
Seaborg, John R.
LRL, Berkeley
Walton
1958
&Torbjørn
Sikkeland
Ghiorso, Almon
1961 Lawrencium Lr 103 Larsh, Robert M. LRL, Berkeley
Latimer et al.
György Flerov et JNIR, Dubna,
1964 Rutherfordium Rf 104 al. USSR
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JNIR, Dubna,
Flerov et al.
USSR 1967
1967 Dubnium Db 105
LRL, Berkeley
Ghiorso et al.
1969
Flerov,Yuri
JNIR, Dubna,
Organessian et
1974 Seaborgium Sg 106 USSR
al.
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Laboratory
(LLNL), California
Place-holder
Organessian,
name
2001 Ununhexium Uuh 116 Utyonkov, Moody
Joint JNIR &
et al.
LLNL teams
Place-holder
Organessian et name
2004 Ununtrium Uut 113
al. Joint JNIR &
LLNL teams
Place-holder
Organessian et name
2004 Ununpentium Uup 115
al. Joint JNIR &
LLNL teams
Place-holder
Organessian et name
2006 Ununoctium Uuo 118
al. Joint JNIR &
LLNL teams
Place-holder
Ununseptium Uus 117 Expected
name
Robert
Place-holder
Ununennium Uue 119 Smolanczuk
name
(Predicted)
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