The first evidence of helium was observed on August 18, 1868 as a bright yellow line with a wavelength of 587.49 nanometers in the spectrum of the chromosphere of the Sun. The line was detected by French astronomer Pierre Janssen during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India.This line was initially assumed to be sodium. On October 20 of the same year, English astronomer Norman Lockyer observed a yellow line in the solar spectrum, which he named the D3 Fraunhofer line because it was near the known D1 and D2 lines of sodium. He concluded that it was caused by an element in the Sun unknown on Earth. Lockyer and English chemist Edward Frankland named the element with the Greek word for the Sun, ἥλιος (helios)." Spectral lines of helium
In 1882, Italian physicist Luigi Palmieri detected helium on Earth, for the first time, through its D3 spectral line, when he analyzed the lava of Mount Vesuvius.
Helium was discovered in the sun specroscopically
Helium was first discovered as a component of the sun before being discovered on earth. Hence the name.
Helium was discovered in 1868 by French astronomer Jules Janssen during a solar eclipse while observing the sun's spectrum.
Helium was discovered in 1895 by William Ramsay.
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Helium was discovered in 1895 by William Ramsay.
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The spectral line for helium was first discovered by a French astronomer working in India during a solar eclipse. An English astronomer determine that this spectral line was due to a previously unknown element. An Italian physicist first detected helium on Earth. A Scottish chemist, was the first to isolate helium on Earth. So where was helium discovered? Depending on how you define "discovery" it was discovered in India, France, England, Italy or Scotland.
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.
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Helium was first discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Jansen. Helium is named after the Greek word for sun - helios.
Helium is located in period 1 on the periodic table.