# Johan Gadolin

> He cracked open a black rock from a Swedish quarry and found a substance no one had seen before — the first rare-earth element, yttrium, opening a hidden row of the periodic table.

*Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist (1760–1852)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Sweden
- **Born:** 1760-06-05
- **Died:** 1852-08-15
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born 5 June 1760, Gadolin became a chemist, physicist, and mineralogist in Finland when those borders and disciplines were still taking shape. He took the second Chair of Chemistry at the Royal Academy of Turku and built Finnish chemistry research from nearly nothing. The work that mattered came from a mineral sample: he isolated a "new earth" that turned out to contain yttrium, the first rare-earth compound anyone had identified. The find eventually led to an entire family of elements. He was ennobled for it and given the Order of Saint Vladimir and the Order of Saint Anna. He died 15 August 1852, having widened the map.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Chemistry, #Physics, #Sweden, #Europe, #Early Modern Era

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