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Oxygen

shared discovery

date of discovery

1774

discoverer

Joseph Priestley

birth

March 13, 1733

death

February 6, 1804

location of discovery

Wiltshire, England

shared discovery

date of discovery

1771–1772

discoverer

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

birth

December 9 (or 19), 1742

death

May 21, 1786

location of discovery

Uppsala, Sweden

Palladium

date of discovery

1803

discoverer

William Hyde Wollaston

birth

August 6, 1766

death

December 22, 1828

location of discovery

London, England

Phosphorus

date of discovery

1669

discoverer

Hennig Brand

location of discovery

Hamburg, Germany

Platinum

date of discovery

pre 1700

discoverer

unknown

location of discovery

Central America

Plutonium

date of discovery

1940

discoverer

Glenn Theodore Seaborg

birth

April 19, 1912

death

February 25, 1999

discoverer

Edwin Mattison McMillan

birth

September 18, 1907

death

September 7, 1991

discoverer

Joseph W. Kennedy

birth

May 30, 1916

death

May 5, 1957

discoverer

Arthur C. Wahl

birth

September 8, 1917

death

March 6, 2006

location of discovery

Berkeley, California

Polonium

date of discovery

1898

discoverer

Marie Sklodowska Curie

birth

November 7, 1867

death

July 4, 1934

location of discovery

Paris, France

Potassium

date of discovery

1807

discoverer

Humphry Davy

birth

December 17, 1778

death

May 29, 1829

location of discovery

London, England

Praseodymium

date of discovery

1885

discoverer

Baron Auer von Welsbach

birth

September 1, 1858

death

August 4, 1929

location of discovery

Vienna, Austria

Promethium

date of discovery

1945

discoverer

Jakob Akiba Marinsky

birth

1918

discoverer

Lawrence Elgin Glendenin

birth

1918

discoverer

Charles Dubois Coryell

birth

1912

death

1971

location of discovery

Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Protactinium

shared discovery

date of discovery

1913

discoverer

Kaisimir Fajans

birth

1887

death

1975

discoverer

Oswald Göhring

location of discovery

Karlsruhe, Germany

shared discovery

date of discovery

1917

discoverer

Otto Hahn

birth

March 8, 1879

death

July 28, 1968

discoverer

Lise Meitner

birth

November 7 (or 17), 1878

death

October 27, 1968

location of discovery

Berlin, Germany

shared discovery

date of discovery

1917

discoverer

Frederick Soddy

birth

September 2, 1877

death

September 22, 1956

discoverer

John Arnold Cranston

birth

1891

death

1972

discoverer

Sir Alexander Fleck

birth

1889

death

1968

location of discovery

Glasgow, Scotland

Radium

date of discovery

1898

discoverer

Marie Sklodowska Curie

birth

November 7, 1867

death

July 4, 1934

discoverer

Pierre Curie

birth

May 15, 1859

death

April 19, 1906

location of discovery

Paris, France

Radon

date of discovery

1900

discoverer

Friedrich Ernst Dorn

birth

July 27, 1848

death

1916

location of discovery

Halle, Germany

Rhenium

date of discovery

1925

discoverer

Walter Karl Friedrich Noddack

birth

1893

death

1960

discoverer

Ida Tacke Noddack

birth

1896

death

1978

discoverer

Otto Berg

birth

1874

death

1939

location of discovery

Berlin, Germany

Rhodium

date of discovery

1803

discoverer

William Hyde Wollaston

birth

August 6, 1766

death

December 22, 1828

location of discovery

London, England

Roentgenium

date of discovery

1994

discoverer

S. Hofmann

discoverer

V. Ninov

discoverer

F. P. Heßberger

discoverer

P. Armbruster

discoverer

H. Folger

discoverer

G. Münzenberg

discoverer

H.-J. Schött

discoverer

A. G. Popeko

discoverer

A. V. Yeremin

discoverer

A. N. Andreyev

discoverer

S. Saro

discoverer

R. Janik

discoverer

M. E. Leino

location of discovery

Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany

Rubidium

date of discovery

1861

discoverer

Robert Wilhelm Bunsen

birth

March 31, 1811

death

August 16, 1899

discoverer

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff

birth

March 12, 1824

death

October 17, 1887

location of discovery

Heidelberg, Germany

Ruthenium

date of discovery

1844

discoverer

Karl Karlovich Klaus

birth

January 23, 1796

death

March 24, 1864

location of discovery

Kazan, Russia

Rutherfordium

date of discovery

1969

discoverer

Albert Ghiorso

birth

July 15, 1915

discoverer

Matti Nurmia

discoverer

James Harris

discoverer

Kari Eskola

discoverer

Pirkko Eskola

location of discovery

Berkeley, California

Samarium

date of discovery

1879

discoverer

Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran

birth

April 18, 1838

death

May 28, 1912

location of discovery

Paris, France

Scandium

date of discovery

1879

discoverer

Lars Fredrik Nilson

birth

May 27, 1840

death

May 14, 1899

location of discovery

Uppsala, Sweden

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