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    Smithson Tennant FRS (30 November 1761 – 22 February 1815) was an English chemist. He is best known for his discovery of the elements iridium and osmium...
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    non-avian dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Osmium was discovered in 1803 by Smithson Tennant and William Hyde Wollaston in London, England. The discovery of osmium...
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    the acid-insoluble residues of platinum ores by the English chemist Smithson Tennant. The name iridium, derived from the Greek word iris (rainbow), refers...
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  • first step in this direction was taken by studying carbon. In 1796 Smithson Tennant was experimenting on diamonds when he decided to burn one. Using only...
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  • and member of the LAGQ Smithson Tennant (1761–1815), British chemist Stella Tennant (1970–2020), Scottish model Stephen Tennant (1906–1987), British aristocratic...
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  • Smithson Tennant, chemist Bryan Smithson, American basketball player Fish Smithson, former NFL player Forrest Smithson, American athlete Gerald Smithson, English...
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    cubic or dodecahedral form, and was named after the English chemist Smithson Tennant (1761–1815). It is found in hydrothermal veins and contact metamorphic...
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    (Sir John Randall), HPV vaccine (Ian Frazer), Iridium and Osmium (Smithson Tennant), Nitrogen (Daniel Rutherford), Strontium (Thomas Charles Hope), and...
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  • Wollaston, and iridium and osmium by his close friend and collaborator Smithson Tennant. The platinum metals have many useful catalytic properties. They are...
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    diamond is composed of carbon. Later, in 1797, the English chemist Smithson Tennant repeated and expanded that experiment. By demonstrating that burning...
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    Sherwood, footballer James Stephenson, actor Eden Taylor-Draper, actress Smithson Tennant, chemist, discoverer Matthew Warchus, theatre and film director Leigh...
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  • (1764–1771) Isaac Pennington (1773–1793) William Farish (1794–1813) Smithson Tennant (1813–1815) James Cumming (1815–1861) George Downing Liveing (1861–1908)...
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    (subsequently vetoed by the Governor of New Hampshire). June 21 – Smithson Tennant announces the discovery of the elements iridium and osmium; three days...
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    Times Rich List 2018. Paul Robinson (b. 1979), football goalkeeper Smithson Tennant (1761–1815), chemist Tony Topham (1929–2004), British academic and...
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    small amount of a dark, insoluble residue. In 1803, British scientist Smithson Tennant (1761–1815) analyzed the insoluble residue and concluded that it must...
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  • palladium. 1803: Smithson Tennant FRS (30 November 1761 – 22 February 1815) discovered the element iridium. 1803: Smithson Tennant FRS (30 November 1761...
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  • Matthew Baillie (died 1823), Scottish-born pathologist. November 30 – Smithson Tennant (died 1815), English chemist. December 21 – Jean-Louis Pons (died 1831)...
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    February 9 – Ellen Hutchins, Irish botanist (b. 1785) February 22 – Smithson Tennant, English chemist, discovered the elements iridium and osmium (b. 1761)...
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  • Collet-Descotils, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Smithson Tennant Protyle 1816 William Prout Russium 87 Francium 1925 D. K. Dobroserdov...
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  • notably pure iridium rings and wedding bands. The company established Smithson Tennant, a new wholly owned subsidiary, in November 2016 to make and market...
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    discovered the principles behind his lamp without the help of the work of Smithson Tennant, but it was generally agreed that the work of the two men had been...
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    discovered the principles behind his lamp without the help of the work of Smithson Tennant, but it was generally agreed that the work of both men had been independent...
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    Cooper (1801) William Hyde Wollaston (1802) Richard Chenevix (1803) Smithson Tennant (1804) Humphry Davy (1805) Thomas Andrew Knight (1806) Everard Home...
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  • year 1797 in science and technology involved some significant events. Smithson Tennant demonstrates that diamond is a pure form of carbon. Louis Nicolas Vauquelin...
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    Several notable alumni have attended the school, including chemist Smithson Tennant, who discovered iridium and osmium, Thomas Percy, who was involved...
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  • Manchester. William Hyde Wollaston discovers the chemical element rhodium. Smithson Tennant discovers the chemical elements iridium and osmium. Cerium is discovered...
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  • discovered in 1803 among insoluble impurities in natural platinum. Smithson Tennant, the primary discoverer, named the iridium for the goddess Iris, personification...
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    animal rights campaigner; exiled to Boulogne in 1826, where he died Smithson Tennant (1761–1815), chemist, discoverer of osmium and iridium, died falling...
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  • Stoddart, supramolecular chemist, Nobel laureates in Chemistry in 2016 Smithson Tennant, discoverer of Iridium and Osmium Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd...
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  • Wollaston and Smithson Tennant, worked together to design an efficient electrochemical technique to refine or purify platinum. Tennant ended up discovering...
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