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1824–1898
Hieronymous Theodor Richter
Discovered indium in 1863.
Element
49InIndium
1863
In 1863 Ferdinand Reich, in Freiberg, was looking for thallium in a zinc ore. Being colour-blind, he asked his assistant Hieronymus Theodor Richter to read the spectrum, and Richter saw a brilliant indigo line. They named the new element indium.
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- Theodor RichterDeutsche Biographie
- IndiumRoyal Society of Chemistry
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