Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French chemist
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Eugène-Anatole Demarçay
- 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. 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.
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