who discovered aluminum

Aluminum was first discovered by the Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted in 1825. He produced a small lump of the metal by reacting aluminum chloride with potassium amalgam. Although Ørsted made the initial discovery, his method produced an impure form, and the metal's significance was not immediately recognized. The German chemist Friedrich Wöhler later improved the process and was credited for isolating aluminum in a relatively pure form in 1827, but Ørsted is considered the original discoverer of aluminum.