Nils Gabriel Sefström
| Nils Gabriel Sefström | |
|---|---|
| Born |
2 June 1787 Ilsbo, Hälsingland, Sweden |
| Died |
30 November 1845 (aged 58) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Doctoral advisor | Jöns Jakob Berzelius |
| Known for | Rediscovery of vanadium |
Nils Gabriel Sefström (2 June 1787 – 30 November 1845) was a Swedish chemist. Sefström was a student of Berzelius and, when studying the brittleness of steel in 1830, he rediscovered a new chemical element, to which he gave the name vanadium.[1]
Vanadium was first discovered by the Spanish-Mexican mineralogist Andrés Manuel del Río in 1801. He named it erythronium. Friedrich Wöhler later confirmed that vanadium and erythronium were the same substance.[2]
Sefström was member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1815.
The Spitzbergen glacier Sefströmbreen,[3] and the mountain ridge of Sefströmkammen, are named after him.[4]
References
- ↑ N. G. Sefström (1831). "Ueber das Vanadin, ein neues Metall, gefunden im Stangeneisen von Eckersholm, einer Eisenhütte, die ihr Erz von Taberg in Småland bezieht". Annalen der Physik und Chemie. 97 (1): 43–49. Bibcode:1831AnP....97...43S. doi:10.1002/andp.18310970103.
- ↑ Pedro Cintas (2004). "The Road to Chemical Names and Eponyms: Discovery, Priority, and Credit". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 43 (44): 5888–5894. doi:10.1002/anie.200330074. PMID 15376297.
- ↑ "Sefströmbreen (Svalbard)". Norwegian Polar Institute. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ↑ "Sefströmkammen (Svalbard)". Norwegian Polar Institute. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
Further reading
- Sjoberg, Sven Gosta (1951). "Nils Gabriel Sefstrom and the Discovery of Vanadium". Journal of Chemical Education. 28 (6): 294–296. Bibcode:1951JChEd..28..294S. doi:10.1021/ed028p294. - subscription required
- Weeks, Mary Elvira (1932). "The Discovery of the Elements: VII. Columbium, Tantalum, and Vanadium". Journal of Chemical Education. 9 (5): 863–884. Bibcode:1932JChEd...9..863W. doi:10.1021/ed009p863. - subscription required
- Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon: Sefström, Nils Gabriel - in Swedish
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