Died 1905-06-18.
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Per Teodor Cleve
Per Teodor Cleve was a Swedish chemist, biologist, mineralogist and oceanographer. He is best known for his discovery of the chemical elements holmium and thulium.
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science · Swedish chemist who discovered holmium and thulium (1840–1905) · chemist · mineralogist · zoologist · university teacher · geologist · scientist · botanist · oceanographer · botanical collector · scientific collector · also Per Teodor Cleve, Per Theodor Cleve, Per Cleve, Cleve, Per T. Cleve
Born 10 February 1840 · Died 18 June 1905 · Q377822
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1894· 1 entry
Won Davy Medal (1894).
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1890· 1 entry
Cleve began to mainly focus on the field of biology, mainly studying freshwater algae, diatoms, and plankton
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1883· 2 entries
Cleve was the first person to describe the plankton species Nitzschia seriata
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Published Kemiskt Handlexicon, which translates to Chemical Handbook
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1879· 3 entries
And The Seasonal Distribution of Atlantic Plankton Organisms in 1900
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Cleve discovered holmium and thulium
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Cleve proved that the newly discovered element scandium was an element predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev to be "eka-boron"
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1874· 3 entries
Theorised that didymium was in fact two elements; this theory was confirmed in 1885 when Carl Auer von Welsbach discovered neodymium and praseodymium
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That the element didymium consisted of two elements
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Cleve married Carolina Alma "Caralma" Öhbom (known as Alma Cleve), a teacher and author; the couple had three daughters
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1863· 1 entry
And a PhD from the same university in 1868
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1860· 1 entry
Aged 20, Cleve became assistant professor of mineralogy at the University of Uppsala, and was appointed assistant professor of chemistry in 1868
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1840· 2 entries
Born 1840-02-10.
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Cleve earned his BSc and PhD from Uppsala University in 1863 and 1868, respectively
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