Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist and academic (died 1912)

Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran

French chemist (1838–1912)

Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, also called François Lecoq de Boisbaudran, was a self-taught French chemist known for his discoveries of the chemical elements gallium, samarium and dysprosium. He developed methods for separation and purification of the rare earth elements and…