Georges Urbain

1872-1938

 

  He was a French chemist and President of the Société de Chimie who discovered and named lutetia (discovery honors are shared with Welsbach and James). Urbain had spent years analyzing complex mixtures of rare earths, only to discover that analysis could be rapidly performed using the brand-new X-ray techniques of Moseley.

 
 

 

  1. "Europium--Eugène Demarçay " article in the Hexagon of Alpha Chi Sigma

  2. Photographs of Althofen, Austria

  3. Photographs of Paris, France 3 (equipment from Demarcay)
 

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