Andrés Manuel del Rio, Spanish-Mexican scientist and discoverer of vanadium (died 1849)

Andrés Manuel del Río

Spanish scientist (1764–1849)

Andrés Manuel del Río y Fernández was a Spanish-born Mexican scientist, naturalist and engineer who discovered compounds of vanadium in 1801. He proposed that the element be given the name panchromium, or later, erythronium, but his discovery was not credited at the time, and…