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Charles Hatchett
Charles Hatchett FRS FRSE was an English mineralogist and analytical chemist who discovered the element niobium, for which he proposed the name "columbium".
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science · British chemist (1765–1847) · chemist · inventor · writer · organist · collector · also Charles Hatchett, Hatchett
Born 2 January 1765 · Died 10 February 1847 · Q378065
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1979· 1 entry
The Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração established the Charles Hatchett Award
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1967· 1 entry
As The Hatchett diary: a tour through the counties of England and Scotland in 1796 visiting their mines and manufactories
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1949· 1 entry
The name niobium was chosen for element 41 at the 15th Conference of the Union of Chemistry in Amsterdam
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1847· 2 entries
Died 1847-02-10.
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And is buried at St Laurence's Church, Upton-cum-Chalvey, Slough,
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1846· 1 entry
German chemist Heinrich Rose argued that there were two additional elements in tantalite, which he named niobium and pelopium for the children of the Cyclops
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1828· 1 entry
Was recognized by the Royal Institution
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1818· 1 entry
Hatchett either bought back or chose to no longer lease out the house that had been built by his father in 1771, Belle Vue, 92 Cheyne Walk, in Chelsea, London
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1802· 1 entry
Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767–1813) announced the discovery of another new element, "tantalum"
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1801· 1 entry
Hatchett analyzed a piece of columbite from the collection at the British Museum
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1800· 1 entry
Hatchett may have opened a small chemical works at Chiswick in London
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1798· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1798).
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1797· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1797).
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1765· 1 entry
Born 1765-01-02.
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