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Nationality
  
French

Name
  
Georges Urbain


Role
  
Chemist

Education
  
ESPCI ParisTech

Georges Urbain Georges Urbain French chemist discovered lutetium element


Born
  
April 12, 1872 Paris, France (
1872-04-12
)

Known for
  
discovery of Lutetium claimed discovery of Celtium

Died
  
November 5, 1938, Paris, France

Georges Urbain (12 April 1872 – 5 November 1938 in Paris) French chemist, professor of Sorbonne. He studied at the elite École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI ParisTech). He discovered the element lutetium (number 71) in 1907.

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Georges Urbain Wikipedia