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Jan 01, 1852 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 05 Mar 1903 (aged 51)
French chemist
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About Eugène Anatole Demarçay
- Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1 January 1852 – 5 March 1903) was a French chemist.
- He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas.
- During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes. He was a spectrum specialist.
- In 1896, he suspected samples of the recently discovered element samarium were contaminated with an unknown element, which he isolated in 1901, naming it europium.
- In 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium.
