Fausto de elhuyar biography
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Fausto de elhuyar biography
Fausto Elhuyar
Spanish chemist
Fausto de Elhuyar (11 October 1755 – 6 February 1833) was a Spanish chemist, and the first to isolate tungsten with his brother Juan José Elhuyar in 1783.
He was in charge, under a King of Spaincommission, of organizing the School of Mines in México City and so was responsible for building the Palacio de Minería, a structure that would house the school. Elhuyar left Mexico after the Mexican War of Independence, when most of the Spanish residents in Mexico were expelled.[1]
Life
He was born in Logroño, La Rioja, Spain son of Basque-French parents from Hasparren, France.
Between 1773 and 1777, Elhúyar studied medicine, surgery and chemistry, as well as mathematics, physics and natural history with his brother Juan José Elhuyar in Paris. After graduating, he returned to Spain, where he exercised himself in the study of mineralogy, specially that of the Basque Country and Navarre, where he resided.
In 1781, he was appointed a member o