Eugène-Anatole Demarçay

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Eugène-Anatole Demarçay

Eugène-Anatole Demarçay
Born 1 January 1852
Paris
Died 5 March 1903 (1903-03-06) (aged 51)
Paris
Nationality French
Fields chemist
Known for spectrum
discovering the element europium

Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1 January 1852 – 5 March 1903)[1] was a French chemist. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes.

He was a spectrum specialist. In 1896, he suspected samples of the recently discovered element samarium were contaminated with an unknown element, which he isolated in 1901, naming it europium. In 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium.[2]

Publications

References

  1. GeneaNet
  2. Asimov, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology 2nd Revised edition
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