- In 1868 Pierre Janssen watched the moon pass in front of the Sun. Using a special prism, he became obsessed with a line of yellow light that everyone assumed was sodium so he kept studying that mysterious line. Joseph Lockyer worked on the same problem and both are credited for helium https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech-0818/ 12 comments space
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