- Per Teodor Cleve
Per Teodor Cleve (
Stockholm February 10 ,1840 –Uppsala June 18 ,1905 ) was a Swedishchemist andgeologist .After graduating from the Stockholm Gymnasium in 1858, Cleve matriculated at the University of Uppsala in May 1858, where he received his Ph.D. in 1863. After employment with the university in Uppsala and travels in Europe and North America, he received a professorship of general and agricultural chemistry in Uppsala in 1874.
Cleve discovered the elements
holmium andthulium in 1879. Also, in 1874, he concluded thatdidymium was in fact two elements, now known asneodymium andpraseodymium .He received the
Davy Medal of theRoyal Society in 1894, "for his researches on the chemistry of the rare earths". The mineralcleveite was named in 1878 by the geologist and explorerAdolf Erik Nordenskiöld in his honour.Cleve was the father of the
botanist andchemist Astrid Cleve and the grandfather of her son,Ulf von Euler , aNobel prize winner,physiologist andpharmacologist .References
*cite journal
title = Per Theodor Cleve
author = Hans, Astrid Euler
journal = Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft
volume = 38
issue = 4
pages = 4221–4238
year = 1905
doi = 10.1002/cber.190503804108* - subscription required
External links
*
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.