Word origin: Named for the mineral samarskite, which was named in honor of a Russian mine official, Col. Samarski. Discovery: In 1879, French chemist Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran discovered the ...
Samarium was first observed spectroscopically by a Swiss chemist, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac in 1853 while working with dydimia. Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, a French chemist first ...