Claude-Auguste Lamy

Not to be confused with Lamy.
Claude Auguste Lamy
Born(1820-07-15)15 July 1820
Ney, Jura, France
Died20 March 1878(1878-03-20) (aged 57)
5th arrondissement of Paris, France
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure
Known fordiscovery of thallium
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisSur deux composés organiques nouveaux (1851)

Claude Auguste Lamy (French: [klod ogyst lami]; 15 July 1820 – 20 March 1878) was a French physicist and chemist who discovered the element thallium independently from William Crookes in 1862; as a result, they are considered co-discoverers, although they did not collaborate.

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