Stefan Deuseksmašinovič

Stefan Deuseksmašinovič (1792-1878) was a Serbian scientist from Belgrade, widely accredited to the accidental discovery of serbium's anomalous properties.

Discovery
Legend says that he discovered the Deuseksmašinovič anomaly when he was drunkenly showing a friend around his lab, under supervision of Ottoman superiors. He wanted to demonstrate his newest machine, one that rotated anything you put in it to high speeds using an air jet. He grabbed a chunk of serbium, then called terbium, and put it into the machine, laughing hysterically. It rapidly started spinning, and it underwent the Deuseksmašinovič reaction, a strange anomaly forming around it. From the anomaly he could hear the sounds of war. (The war behind the first anomaly has been confirmed to be the Yugoslav Wars of the Mirror Timeline, in approximately the year 1999.) The Ottomans told him to shut the machine off, in case someone were to go through the anomaly. Deuseksmašinovič turned it off, and was promptly taken to Constantinople for interrogation.

The Ottomans ended up freeing him after a harsh questioning, and he went back to Belgrade. There, he formed the Belgrade Center for Terbium Research, which aimed to discover exactly what was behind the anomaly.