Georges Urbain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French chemist, painter, sculptor and composer
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Place of Birth: 11th arrondissement of Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Georges Urbain
- Georges Urbain (12 April 1872 – 5 November 1938 in Paris) was a French chemist, a professor of the Sorbonne, a member of the Institut de France, and director of the Institute of Chemistry in Paris.
- Much of his work focused on the rare earths, isolating and separating elements such as europium and gadolinium, and studying their spectra, their magnetic properties and their atomic masses.
- He discovered the element lutetium (atomic number 71).
- He also studied the efflorescence of saline hydrates.
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