1889–1915
Oswald Helmuth Göhring
Discovered protactinium in 1913.
Element
91PaProtactinium
1913
In 1913 Kazimierz Fajans and Oswald Göhring found a short-lived element between thorium and uranium. In 1918 Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, in Berlin, found a long-lived form and named it protoactinium, later shortened to protactinium, because it decays into actinium.
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- ProtactiniumRoyal Society of Chemistry
- Oswald Helmuth GöhringWikipedia