Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele was a Swedish-German chemist who made groundbreaking discoveries in chemistry during the 18th century, most notably identifying oxygen as a distinct element. His work laid important foundations for modern chemistry and our understanding of how air and combustion work.
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- Born
- 1742
- Died
- 1786
- Works
- 35
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- Bruna boken
- Traité chimique de l'air et du feu
- Supplement au Traité chimique de l'air et du feu de M. Scheele
- Handschriften, 1756-1777
- The early history of chlorine
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele ( German: [ˈʃeːlə], Swedish: [ˈɧêːlɛ]; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist.
Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified the elements molybdenum, tungsten, barium, nitrogen, and chlorine, among others. Scheele discovered organic acids tartaric, oxalic, uric, lactic, and citric, as well as hydrofluoric, hydrocyanic, and arsenic acids. He preferred speaking German to Swedish his whole life, as German was commonly spoken among Swedish pharmacists.