Eugène-Melchior Péligot, Professor of Analytical Chemistry at…
1841 CE
Eugène-Melchior Péligot, Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Conservatoire des arts et métiers (Central School of Arts and Manufactures) in Paris, first isolates uranium metal itself in 1841 by the reduction of uranus chloride, or uranium tetrachloride (UCl4), with potassium.