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1838–1904
Clemens Winkler
Discovered germanium in 1886.
Element
32GeGermanium
1886
In 1886 Clemens Winkler, in Freiberg, analysed a new silver mineral and found that about 7 per cent of it was unaccounted for. He traced it to a new element, named it germanium after Germany, and it turned out to be the eka-silicon Mendeleev had predicted.
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