Fausto D'Elhuyar:
Fausto D'Elhuyar was a Spanish mineralogist and chemist who co-discovered the element tungsten.
Birth:
October 11, 1755
Death:
January 6, 1833
Claim to Fame:
Fausto D'Elhuyar was a Spanish mineralogist who, together with his brother Juan José D'Elhuyar, isolated the element tungsten from wolfram ore. Carl Scheele had discovered tungsten two years earlier in the form of tungstic acid, but did not separate the tungsten metal from the acid. The D'Elhuyar brothers reduced the acid through charcoal and removed the metal.
