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Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets
Russian mining engineer
Vasili Yevgrafovich Samarsky-Bykhovets (Russian: Василий Евграфович Самарский-Быховец; 7 November 1803 – 31 May 1870) was a Russian mining engineer and the chief of Russian Mining Engineering Corps between 1845 and 1861. The mineral samarskite (samarskite-Y, samarskite-Yb and calciosamarskite),[1] and chemical element samarium are named after him. He was the first person whose name was given to a chemical element.[2][3]