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Nationality
  
French

Name
  
Eugene-Anatole Demarcay


Role
  
Chemist

Fields
  
Chemist

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Known for
  
spectrum discovering the element europium

Died
  
March 5, 1903, Paris, France

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

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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.

Publications

  • Spectres électriques. Atlas ; Eugène Demarçay ; Paris : Gauthier-Villars, 1895. OCLC 54317437
  • Sur les acides tétrique et oxytétrique et leurs homologues ; Eugène Demarçay ; Paris : Gauthier-Villars, 1880. OCLC 25644291

    • References

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