Samarium was first observed spectroscopically by a Swiss chemist, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac in 1853 while working with dydimia. Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, a French chemist first ...

Scientists in Germany have uncovered previously unknown properties of the rare Earth element samarium by developing a powerful new technique to investigate the internal structure of atoms. For the ...

The metallic element samarium, when bound with other elements, is an incredibly useful chemical reagent for synthesizing molecules that can lead to new pharmaceuticals. Discovered in a Russian mine in ...

Many years ago while studying for a degree in mineralogy, I was privileged to visit the Russian Ilmen Mountains, host to two minerals from which several rare-earth elements were discovered — monazite ...