Element discoveries

By giavanna1229
  • 1600 BCE

    Carbon, Sulfur, Iron, Tin, Lead, Copper, Mercury, Silver, and Gold.

    Humans know about carbon, sulfur, iron, tin, lead, copper, mercury, silver, and gold.

  • Phosphorous

    German physician Hennig Brand discovers phosphorus

  • Colbalt

    Swedish chemist Georg Brandt discovers

  • Hydrogen

    English chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish discovers hydrogen

  • Nitrogen

    Scottish physician and chemist Daniel Rutherford discovers nitrogen

  • Chlorine

    Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovers chlorine

  • Oxygen

    English chemist Joseph Priestley and Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover oxygen

  • Chromium

    French chemist Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin discovers chromium

  • Potassium and Sodium

    English chemist Sir Humphry Davy discovers potassium and sodium

  • Strontium, Calcium and Magnesium.

    English chemist Sir Humphry Davy discovers strontium, calcium and magnesium.

  • Iodine

    French chemist Bernard Courtois discovers iodine

  • Lithium

    Swedish chemist Johan August Arfwedson discovers lithium

  • Silicon

    Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius discovers silicon

  • Aluminum

    Danish chemist and physicist Hans Christian Oersted discovers aluminum

  • Fluorine

    French chemist Henri Moissan discovers fluorine

  • Krypton

    English chemists William Ramsay and Morris Travers discover krypton.

  • Polonium and Radium

    French physicists Marie and Pierre Curie discover polonium.

  • Plutonium

    University of California at Berkeley researcher Glenn Seaborg and others prepare plutonium.