Silicon: historical information
- Discoveror: Jöns Jacob Berzelius
- Place of discovery: Sweden
- Date of discovery: 1824
- Origin of name : from the Latin word "silicis" meaning "flint".
JΔns Jacob Berzelius is generally credited with the discovery of silicon in 1824. Deville prepared crystalline silicon in 1854, a second allotropic form of the element.
