June 2, 1787 - Birth of Nils Sefström, discoverer of the chemical element vanadium or not?

Nils Gabriel Sefström studied chemistry and was a student and disciple of Jöns Jacob Berzelius (the father of modern chemical notation). While studying minerals associated with steel, he discovered a chemical element, vanadium.

However, the same element had previously been discovered by the Spanish-Mexican Andrés Manuel del Río, in 1801, and he had named it erythrone (although many mistakenly call it erythronium).

Later, Friedrich Wöhler (the first to isolate beryllium and metallic alumnium) confirmed that vanadium and erythrone were the same substance. Nevertheless, the officially accepted name is vanadium.

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