# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/georges-urbain
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:16:38.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/georges-urbain"
name: "Georges Urbain"
slug: "georges-urbain"
description: "Georges Urbain was a French chemist, a professor of the Sorbonne, a member of the Institut de France, and director of the Institute of Chemistry in Paris. Much of his work focused on the rare earths, isolating and separating elements such as europium and gadolinium, and studying their spectra, their magnetic properties and their atomic masses. He discovered the element lutetium. He also studied the efflorescence of saline hydrates."
tagline: "French chemist, painter, sculptor and composer (1872–1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Georges_Urbain_(Archives_IBPC).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1872-04-12"
deathDate: "1938-11-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump