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1840–1899
Lars Fredrik Nilson
Discovered scandium in 1879.
Element
21ScScandium
1879
Mendeleev predicted a missing element between calcium and titanium. In 1879 Lars Fredrik Nilson, in Uppsala, found it in the mineral euxenite and named it scandium, after Scandinavia.
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- Lars Fredrik NilsonEncyclopaedia Britannica
- ScandiumRoyal Society of Chemistry
- Lars Fredrik NilsonWikipedia