Gregor, Reverend William

Introduction to the Reverend William Gregor s Original Paper on Titanium, or Mena-ehanite, Crett s Annalen, 1791. 

After titanium was discovered in 1791 by the Reverend William Gregor in Cornwall, its atomic weight was determined by such able chemists as H. Rose, C. G. Mosander, and J.-B.-A. Dumas, but the results showed such great discrepancies that Mendeleev predicted that another element would be found in titanium ores (17). 

Birth of the Reverend William Gregor, the discoverer of titanium, in Trewarthenick, Cornwall. 

Titanium was discovered by the Reverend William Gregor in 1791, and is named after the Titans of Greek mythology. 

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