WORLDKINGS - On This Day - June 26, 2018 - Fluorine was isolated by the French chemist Henri Moissan in 1886
25-06-2018
(Worldkings.org) Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan (28 September 1852 – 20 February 1907) was a French chemist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Moissan was one of the original members of the International Atomic Weights Committee.