Charles Hatchett
British chemist
Died when: 82 years 67 days (986 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Charles Hatchett FRS FRSE (2 January 1765 – 10 March 1847) was an English mineralogist and analytical chemist who discovered the element niobium, for which he proposed the name "columbium".
Hatchett was elected a Fellow of the Linnaean Society in 1795,and of the Royal Society in 1797.Hatchett was elected to the Literary Club in London in 1809 and became its treasurer in 1829.
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