1886–1948
Carlo Perrier
Discovered technetium in 1937.
Element
43TcTechnetium
1937
Technetium was the first element made artificially. In 1937, in Palermo, Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segrè found it in molybdenum that had been bombarded in Berkeley's cyclotron, and named it after the Greek for artificial.
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