Nils Gabriel Sefström
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Nils Gabriel Sefström (June 2, 1787 - November 30, 1845) Swedish chemist. Sefström, was a student of Berzelius and when studying the brittleness of steel, in 1830 he discovered a new chemical element, which he gave the name vanadium.
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