Claude François Geoffroy
Chemist, Deceased Person
1729 – 1753
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Who was Claude François Geoffroy?
Claude François Geoffroy was a French chemist. He discovered the chemical element bismuth in 1753. Before this time, bismuth-containing minerals were frequently identified as either lead or tin ores.
He is known as Claude Geoffroy the Younger to distinguish him from his father Claude Joseph Geoffroy, also a French chemist and apothecary, member of the académie des sciences.
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