Charles Hatchett FRS (1765-1847), chemist and discoverer of niobium
Charles Hatchett FRS (1765-1847), chemist and discoverer of niobium
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10.1098/rsnr.2003.0216
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2003-09-01
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Morris, PJT
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Griffith, WP;Morris, PJT
查尔斯·哈切特(图1)是现在被称为Nb的元素的发现者，他是一位著名的马车制造商的儿子，并亲自将他父亲的一位教练交给了凯瑟琳大帝。部分原因是这次圣彼得堡之旅激发了他毕生对化学和矿物学的兴趣。他用大英博物馆收藏的汉斯·斯隆1753年收藏的一种美国矿物证明，它含有一种新元素，他称之为铌。他研究的原始标本现在保存在伦敦自然历史博物馆。在1796-1806年的十年间，他还发现了其他几种化学物质，但后来又回到了父亲的生意中，成为一名著名的书籍、绘画、乐器和音乐手稿收藏家。
charles Hatchett (figure 1), the discoverer of the element now called niobium, was the son of a famous coachbuilder, and delivered in person one of his father's coaches to Catherine the Great. It was partly this journey to St Petersburg that stimulated his life-long interest in chemistry and mineralogy. using an American mineral in the Hans Sloane collection of the British Museum dating back to 1753 he showed that it contained a new element, which he called columbium. The original specimen on which he worked is now in the Natural History Museum, London. In the decade 1796-1806 he made several other chemical discoveries, but later returned to his father's business and became a noted collector of books, paintings, musical instruments and musical manuscripts.