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  1. Helium was first observed in the spectrum of sunlight in 1868 by the French astronomer Jules Janssen.
  2. Helium was formally discovered in 1895 by two Swedish chemists, Per Teodor Cleve and Nils Abraham Langlet, who found helium emanating from the uranium ore cleveite.
  3. Helium was first found in quantity in natural gas under salt domes in Texas and other parts of the US in 1903.
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