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    Per Teodor Cleve (10 February 1840 – 18 June 1905) was a Swedish chemist, biologist, mineralogist and oceanographer. He is best known for his discovery...
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    discovery of the element was made in 1895 by chemists Sir William Ramsay, Per Teodor Cleve, and Nils Abraham Langlet, who found helium emanating from the uranium...
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    substituted by rare-earth elements. It was named after Swedish chemist Per Teodor Cleve. Cleveite was the first known terrestrial source of helium, which is...
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    biological role and is not particularly toxic. In 1879, the Swedish chemist Per Teodor Cleve separated two previously unknown components, which he called holmia...
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    the only faculty member who could have supervised him in chemistry, Per Teodor Cleve, so he left to study at the Physical Institute of the Swedish Academy...
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    isolated in 1879, from an impure sample of erbia, by Swedish chemist Per Teodor Cleve, who named it thulia. Thulium(III) oxide has been made in the laboratory...
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    to Leonhard Euler. He married chemist Astrid Cleve, the daughter of the Uppsala chemist Per Teodor Cleve. In 1970, their son Ulf von Euler, was awarded...
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  • Astrid Cleve and sister of Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine Ulf von Euler. She was also the great-granddaughter of Per Teodor Cleve. She was...
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  • Langlet (1872–1960). From 1886 to 1896, he studied chemistry under Per Teodor Cleve (1840–1905) at Uppsala University, where he became a philosophy graduate...
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    Scandium oxide was isolated in late 1879 by Lars Fredrick Nilson; Per Teodor Cleve recognized the correspondence and notified Mendeleev late in that year...
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