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Uranium was disvovered (as an oxide) in 1789 in Germany by Martin Heinrich Klaproth; but the mineral pitchblende was from Jachimow, now in Czech Republic and from Johanngeorgenstadt, now in Germany.

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Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Heinrich Klaproth in Berlin (minerals obtained from Jachimow and Johanngeorgenstadt)as an oxide and prepared as a pure metal By Eugene Melchior Peligot in 1841.

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