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Yes, and it was discovered (and later isolated) by separate, independent scientists.

Helium was discovered by the French astronomer Pierre (Jules) 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 helium from air in the laboratory; the same year this experiment was repeated independently by Per Theodor Cleve and Nils Langlet in Sweden.

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