William gregor found titanum in 1791. another man named martin klaproth also thought he discovered it and named it titanium. a while after William got told that he found it first but it still kept the same name.
William Gregor, who discovered titanium was British.
William Gregor
William Gregor
1791
William Gregor
William Gregor was an English pastor who studied Cornish minerals as a hobby. He found some Ilmenite in a Cornish mine and broke it down and noticed one element that he could not identify. Later that same year a German chemist also discovered this element and named it titanium because the mineral had the "strength of the titans." When he learned of Gregor's results, Martin Heinrich Klaproth gave William Gregor the credit for the discovery.
Titanium was first discovered in 1791 by William Gregor, an English pastor, who found a reddish brown calx he couldn't recognize. Later in 1795, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, an Austrian chemist, identified titanium as a new element.
No, he discovered Titanium in 1791.
English clergyman William Gregor (1761-1817).
William Gregor is remembered as the British discoverer of the metallic element Titanium. He was a mineralogist and a clergyman. Besides of his studies on chemistry and his pastoral duties, he was a musician and a painter.
There is no specifically known date that he discovered titanium, although the year is known to be 1791. It was discovered in the United Kingdom when Gregor noticed a stream with black sand that seemed to be magnetic.
William Gregor died on June 11, 1817, due to an illness. He was a British clergyman and mineralogist known for discovering the element titanium.