Uranium
Uranio (U, Z=92)
- Date
- 1789 · confidence high
- Place
- Berlin, Germany
- Credited to
- Martin Heinrich Klaproth
- People
- 👤 Martin Heinrich Klaproth1743–1817
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
Klaproth identified a new element in pitchblende from Joachimsthal and named it after the planet Uranus; Péligot isolated the metal in 1841.
What Klaproth obtained was in fact an oxide.
What it led to
- Discovery of radioactivity (Becquerel, 1896)
- Nuclear fission, the atomic bomb and nuclear power
- Uranium glass and ceramic pigments
Built on
- Joachimsthal pitchblende
- Klaproth's analysis