In 1868 Jules Janssen and Norman Lockyear discovered spectral lines of an unknown element in Sun - the element was named helium.
In 1895 Per Teodor Cleve and Nils Abraham Langled discovered helium in an uranium mineral.
Helium was discovered in 18951868
Helium was discovered in the sun specroscopically
Helium was discovered in 1895 by William Ramsay.
Helium was first discovered as a component of the sun before being discovered on earth. Hence the name.
Helium was discovered in 1895.
Helium was discovered in 1895 by William Ramsay.
helium
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.
England
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.
Helium was first discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Jansen. Helium is named after the Greek word for sun - helios.
Because helium was discovered by spectral methods in the Sun.