Discovery and invention facts
Who found or invented it, and when. 650 facts.
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of caesium to Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen, in 1860.
Source: Wikipedia: Caesium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1108 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of germanium to Clemens Winkler, in 1886.
Source: Wikipedia: Germanium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q867 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of tungsten to Fausto Elhuyar and Juan José Elhuyar, in 1783.
Source: Wikipedia: Tungsten (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q743 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of iridium to Smithson Tennant, in 1803.
Source: Wikipedia: Iridium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q877 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of niobium to Charles Hatchett, in 1801.
Source: Wikipedia: Niobium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1046 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of judo to Kanō Jigorō, in 1882.
Source: Wikipedia: Judo (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q11420 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of palladium to William Hyde Wollaston, in 1803.
Source: Wikipedia: Palladium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1089 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of molybdenum to Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in 1778.
Source: Wikipedia: Molybdenum (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1053 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of osmium to Smithson Tennant and William Hyde Wollaston, in 1804.
Source: Wikipedia: Osmium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q751 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of yttrium to Friedrich Wöhler and Johan Gadolin, in 1787.
Source: Wikipedia: Yttrium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q941 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of astatine to Emilio G. Segrè, in 1940.
Source: Wikipedia: Astatine (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q999 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of tellurium to Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, in 1783.
Source: Wikipedia: Tellurium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1100 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of hafnium to Dirk Coster and George de Hevesy, in 1922.
Source: Wikipedia: Hafnium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1119 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of tantalum to Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, in 1802.
Source: Wikipedia: Tantalum (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1123 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Ceres to Giuseppe Piazzi, in 1801.
Source: Wikipedia: Ceres (dwarf planet) (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q596 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of technetium to Carlo Perrier and Emilio G. Segrè, in 1937.
Source: Wikipedia: Technetium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1054 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of neutron to James Chadwick, in 1932.
Source: Wikipedia: Neutron (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q2348 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of indium to Ferdinand Reich and Hieronymous Theodor Richter, in 1863.
Source: Wikipedia: Indium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1094 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of rhodium to William Hyde Wollaston, in 1803.
Source: Wikipedia: Rhodium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1087 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of ruthenium to Karl Ernst Claus, in 1844.
Source: Wikipedia: Ruthenium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1086 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of thorium to Jöns Jacob Berzelius, in 1828.
Source: Wikipedia: Thorium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1115 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Norfolk Island to James Cook, in 1774.
Source: Wikipedia: Norfolk Island (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q31057 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of neptunium to Edwin McMillan and Philip Abelson, in 1940.
Source: Wikipedia: Neptunium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1105 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of actinium to André-Louis Debierne, in 1899.
Source: Wikipedia: Actinium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1121 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of thallium to William Crookes, in 1861.
Source: Wikipedia: Thallium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q932 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of lanthanum to Carl Gustaf Mosander, in 1839.
Source: Wikipedia: Lanthanum (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1801 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of europium to Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, in 1901.
Source: Wikipedia: Europium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1396 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of rutherfordium to Albert Ghiorso, in 1964.
Source: Wikipedia: Rutherfordium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1226 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of cerium to Jöns Jacob Berzelius and Martin Heinrich Klaproth, in 1804.
Source: Wikipedia: Cerium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1385 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of seaborgium to Yuri Oganessian, in 1974.
Source: Wikipedia: Seaborgium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1234 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of samarium to Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, in 1879.
Source: Wikipedia: Samarium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1819 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of lutetium to Carl Auer von Welsbach and Georges Urbain, in 1906.
Source: Wikipedia: Lutetium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1857 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of einsteinium to Albert Ghiorso and Glenn Theodore Seaborg, in 1952.
Source: Wikipedia: Einsteinium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1892 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of bohrium to Yuri Oganessian, in 1976.
Source: Wikipedia: Bohrium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1249 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of americium to Glenn Theodore Seaborg, in 1944.
Source: Wikipedia: Americium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1872 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of gadolinium to Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, in 1880.
Source: Wikipedia: Gadolinium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1832 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of fermium to Glenn Theodore Seaborg, in 1952.
Source: Wikipedia: Fermium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1896 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of nobelium to Glenn Theodore Seaborg, in 1958.
Source: Wikipedia: Nobelium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1901 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of neodymium to Carl Auer von Welsbach, in 1885.
Source: Wikipedia: Neodymium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1388 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of praseodymium to Carl Gustaf Mosander, in 1841.
Source: Wikipedia: Praseodymium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1386 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of dysprosium to Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, in 1886.
Source: Wikipedia: Dysprosium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1843 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of terbium to Carl Gustaf Mosander, in 1843.
Source: Wikipedia: Terbium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1838 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of curium to Glenn Theodore Seaborg, in 1944.
Source: Wikipedia: Curium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1876 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of mendelevium to Glenn Theodore Seaborg, in 1955.
Source: Wikipedia: Mendelevium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1898 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of lawrencium to Albert Ghiorso, in 1961.
Source: Wikipedia: Lawrencium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1905 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of ytterbium to Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, in 1878.
Source: Wikipedia: Ytterbium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1855 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of erbium to Carl Gustaf Mosander, in 1843.
Source: Wikipedia: Erbium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1849 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of SARS-CoV-2 to Zhang Jixian, in 2019.
Source: Wikipedia: SARS-CoV-2 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q82069695 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of special relativity to Albert Einstein, in 1905.
Source: Wikipedia: Special relativity (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q11455 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of diode to Jagadish Chandra Bose, in 1901.
Source: Wikipedia: Diode (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q11656 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of electromagnetic radiation to Heinrich Hertz, in 1886.
Source: Wikipedia: Electromagnetic radiation (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q12969754 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of thulium to Per Teodor Cleve, in 1879.
Source: Wikipedia: Thulium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1853 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Hammurabi to Austen Henry Layard, in 1853.
Source: Wikipedia: Hammurabi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q36359 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of transformer to Michael Faraday, in 1831.
Source: Wikipedia: Transformer (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q11658 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of internal combustion engine to Nicolaus Otto and Rudolf Diesel, in 1924.
Source: Wikipedia: Internal combustion engine (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q12757 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of battery to Alessandro Volta, in 1800.
Source: Wikipedia: Electric battery (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q267298 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of methane to Alessandro Volta, in 1777.
Source: Wikipedia: Methane (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q37129 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of penicillin to Alexander Fleming, in 1928.
Source: Wikipedia: Penicillin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q12190 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Theobroma cacao to Christopher Columbus, in 1502.
Source: Wikipedia: Theobroma cacao (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q42385 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of natural selection to Charles Darwin, in 1858.
Source: Wikipedia: Natural selection (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q43478 (CC0)