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unusual facts about Charles Hatchett


Upton, Slough

It was the marriage place (7 May 1788) and burial place (1822) of Sir William Herschel (in whose memory there stands a newly erected stained-glass window depicting Uranus, which he discovered, and other planets), and the burial place of Charles Hatchett who discovered niobium.


Thomas Rackett

In 1794 and 1796 he accompanied Charles Hatchett and William George Maton in a tour through the western counties and collected minerals.


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