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Per Teodor Cleve Biography

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Per Teodor Cleve (1840 - 1905)

Per Teodor Cleve (1840 - 1905)

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Per Teodor Cleve:

Per Teodor Cleve was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist.

Birth:

February 10, 1840 in Stockholm, Sweden

Death:

June 18, 1905 in Uppsala, Sweden

Claim to Fame:

Cleve was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist who discovered the elements holmium and thulium. He also discovered the element didymium was not an element at all, but two separate elements, neodymium and praseodymium.

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