Charles James (chemist)

Charles James (* April 27 1880 in Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, England; † December 10, 1928 ) was a British chemist.

After he had studied with William Ramsay at University College London, he went to the United States at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts ( from 1923 renamed University of New Hampshire), where he and the separation by fractional precipitation crystallization, and the identification of rare earth habilitation.

He cleaned and described the chemical element with atomic number 71, which was later called lutetium.