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.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele Media
- ScheeleRoyalSwdAcadChemObservatnsAir&Fire.jpg
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)
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Acicular radiating pyrolusite formations, from Elgersburg, Thuringia, Germany. Photograph taken at the Natural History Museum,
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- Chlorinesample
Statue of Scheele in Köping, Sweden.
- Mémoires de chymie Scheele RGNb10364341.02.vol I.tp 1785.tif
Mémoires de chymie, 1785, French translation by Mme. Claudine Picardet
- Scheele, Carl Wilhelm – Early history of chlorine, 1944 – BEIC 7863226.jpg
Early history of chlorine, 1944