Adolf Patera
Austrian chemist
Born on: July 11, 1819Died on: June 26, 1894
Aged: 74 years 350 days (899 months)
Birth Sign: Cancer
Adolf Patera, was a Bohemian chemist, mineralogist and metallurgist, best known for the important role he played in the utilisation of uranium in colour production in glass, and associated with silver extraction from the mines at Joachimsthal, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now known as Jáchymov.
Pateraite, supposedly a cobalt molybdate, is named after him.
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