Juan José Elhuyar Lubize (15 June 1754 – 20 September 1796) was a Spanish

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field. Chemists study the composition of ...

and

mineralogist Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical mineralogy, optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifact (archaeology), artifacts. Specific s ...

, who was best known for being first to isolate

tungsten Tungsten (also called wolfram) is a chemical element; it has symbol W and atomic number 74. It is a metal found naturally on Earth almost exclusively in compounds with other elements. It was identified as a distinct element in 1781 and first ...

with his brother Fausto Elhuyar in 1783. He was born in

Logroño Logroño ( , , ) is the capital of the autonomous community of La Rioja (Spain), La Rioja, Spain. Located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, primarily in the right (South) bank of the Ebro River, Logroño has historically been a place of pa ...

, in northern Spain and died in Santafé de Bogotá, New Granada (present-day

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) at 42.

External links

Juan José Delhuyar. Polymath Virtual Library, Fundación Ignacio Larramendi

References

1754 births 1796 deaths 18th-century Spanish chemists Mineralogists Spanish geologists Discoverers of chemical elements People from Logroño Spanish people of Basque descent Spanish scientists {{Chemist-stub