Nils Gabriel Sefström

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Nils Gabriel Sefström (June 2, 1787 - November 30, 1845) was a Swedish chemist. Sefström was a student of Berzelius and, when studying the brittleness of steel, in 1830 he discovered a new chemical element, which he gave the name vanadium.

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