Nils Gabriel Sefström
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 179 years ago |
Date of birth | June 2,1787 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Ilsbo |
Sweden | |
Date of died | November 30,1845 |
Died | Stockholm |
Sweden | |
Academic advisor | Jöns Jacob Berzelius |
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ID | 682301 |
Nils Gabriel Sefström Life story
Nils Gabriel Sefström was a Swedish chemist. Sefström was a student of Berzelius and, when studying the brittleness of steel in 1830, he rediscovered a new chemical element, to which he gave the name vanadium. Vanadium was first discovered by the Spanish-Mexican mineralogist Andrés Manuel del Río in 1801.