Elements

The Search in Chemistry to Find Elements

  • Robert Boyle

    Boyle's law
  • Henning Brandt

    Henning Brandt

    discovered phosphorous from urine.
  • Henry Cavendish

    Henry Cavendish

    Discovered hydrogen "inflammable air." No specific date only year
  • Daniel Rutherford

    Daniel Rutherford

    Isolation of nitrogen. No specific date just the year
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley

    Invented carbonated water and started studying oxygen from mercury
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier

    Discovered oxygen and it combustion
  • Alessandro Volta

    Alessandro Volta

    invented the voltaic pile
  • Humphry Davy

    Humphry Davy

    Discovery of nitrous oxide and its affects on respiration.
  • Humphry Davy (Elements)

    Humphry Davy (Elements)

    Between 1807-1808 Davy found sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, and barium
  • Glenn Seaborg

    Glenn Seaborg

    Discovered 10 elements, Nobel Prize