Charles Hatchett

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Charles Hatchett FRS FRSE (2 January 1765 – 10 March 1847) was an English mineralogist and analytical chemist who discovered the element niobium, for which he proposed the name "columbium".

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Image: Engraving by F. C. Lewis after the painting by T. Phillips. From Faulkner's History of Chelsea, 1829., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.