Charles James (chemist)

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Charles James (born April 27, 1880 in Earls Barton , Northamptonshire , England , † December 10, 1928 ) was a British chemist.

After studying with William Ramsay at University College London , he went to the United States to the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts (renamed the University of New Hampshire from 1923 ), where he dealt with the separation by fractional precipitation and crystallization and the identification of rare earth habilitation .

He purified and described the chemical element with the atomic number 71, which was later called lutetium .

Individual evidence

  1. biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Charles James at academictree.org, accessed on February 13 2018th
  2. ^ Separaton of Rare Earth Elements by Charles James. Section: Biography of the Chemist Charles James . American Chemical Society , accessed June 24, 2017 .
  3. UNH Magazine: UNH Magazine - The Life and Work of Charles James . Retrieved January 9, 2012.