he found it in the middle of an eclipse. he saw a yellow line across the sky which turned out be helium.
Helium was discovered in 1895.
Pierre Janssen discovered the lines of helium in the spectra of the Sun on 18 August 1868 at Guntur (India).
In 1868 by Pierre Janssen.
Helium was discovered in 1868 by Pierre Janssen and Norman Lockyer
Pierre Janssen was a French astronomer who discovered helium in 1868. India.
Norman Lockyer and Pierre Jules César Janssen
In our sun.
Helium is a naturally occurring element and was not invented by anyone.
Helium discoverey (which was spectrocopic) is attributed to Norman Lockyer who was English from Britian and Pierre Janssen who was French from France.
Helium
Pierre Janssen, who was a French astronomer discovered helium in 1868. It was the English astronomer Norman Lockyer who proposed the name helium after the Greek name of the sun, Helios.
The discovery of heliumHelium was discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India, in 1868. The same spectral emission lines were noted by the English astronomer Norman Lockyer, also in 1868, who proposed the name "helium," after Helios, the Sun God of Greek mythology. In 1895 Sir William Ramsay separated for the first time helium from air in laboratory; the same year this experiment was repeated independently by Per Theodor Cleve and Nils Langlet in Sweden.French Astronomer Pierre Jannssen.