The first person to (technically) have an element named after did not contribute much to its discovery. he merely granted Gustav Rose to access mineral samples of the Urals .Rose , then named a mineral discovered there after him . The element was then discovered in the mineral, and named after the mineral and thus, indirectly, named after him. Which Element?

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Answer:

Samarium is a chemical element with the symbol Sm and atomic number 62

Explanation:

Samarsky-Bykhovets, as the Chief of Staff of the Russian Corps of Mining Engineers, had granted access for two German mineralogists, the brothers Gustav Rose and Heinrich Rose, to study the mineral samples from the Urals. In this sense samarium was the first chemical element to be named after a person. Then the minera.