Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (December 9, 1742 - May 21, 1786) a German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist, born in Stralsund, Western Pomerania, Germany (at the time under Swedish rule), was the discoverer of many chemical substances, most notably discovering oxygen before Joseph Priestley and chlorine before Humphry Davy.
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Engraving on the title page of Scheele's Chemical Treatise on Air and Fire (1777) (d. Königl. Schwed. Acad. d. Wissenschaft Mitgliedes, Chemische Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer)
Acicular radiating pyrolusite formations, from Elgersburg, Thuringia, Germany. Photograph taken at the Natural History Museum,
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Statue of Scheele in Köping, Sweden.
Mémoires de chymie, 1785, French translation by Mme. Claudine Picardet
Early history of chlorine, 1944
