Cronstedt, Baron Axel

In 1751 Baron Axel Fredrick Cronstedt (1722-1765) used some of the techniques he had learned from his teacher, Georg Brandt (1694—1768), to separate a new metal from copper-hke ore mined in Sweden. He expected to obtain pure copper instead, he ended up with a silver-white metal that did not have the chemical and physical properties of copper. He named this newly identified metal nickel, shortened from the German name the early miners had given the ore kupfernickel. ... 

Nickel Ni 1751 (Stockholm, Sweden) Baron Axel Cronstedt (Swedish) 108... 

The name zeolite, which means boiling stone, was coined by the Scandinavian mineralogist Baron Axel Cronstedt, who observed that certain stones foamed and bubbled on heating. 

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