Thorium - 90Th: historical information
- Discoveror: Jöns Berzelius
- Place of discovery: Sweden
- Date of discovery: 1829
- Origin of name : named after "Thor", the mythological Scandinavian god of war.
Thorium was discovered by Berzelius in 1828 in a mineral given to him by the Reverend Has Morten Thrane Esmark.