Nils Gabriel Sefström

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Nils Gabriel Sefström (born June 2, 1787 in Ilsbo Socken , † November 30, 1845 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist who (re) discovered the element vanadium at Taberg in 1831 after it had already been discovered by Andrés Manuel del Río in a Mexican lead ore was found.

Life

Sefström was a student of Jöns Jakob Berzelius . From 1820 to 1839 he taught at the Falun Mountain School . Afterwards he worked as laboratory head of the royal mountain college in Stockholm. In 1841 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

literature

  • Nils Gabriel Sefström . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 450 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Sefström, Nils Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish chemist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilsbo socks
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1845
Place of death Stockholm