Carl scheels biography
We tell you the story of a scientist who is amongst the brave and brilliant researchers who formed the history of chemistry - Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele was a German Swedish pharmaceutical chemist.!
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen (1742–1786)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (German:[ˈʃeːlə], Swedish:[ˈɧêːlɛ]; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786[2]) was a German Swedish[3] pharmaceutical chemist.
Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified 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.[4] He preferred speaking German to Swedish his whole life, as German was commonly spoken among Swedish pharmacists.[5]
Biography
Scheele was born in Stralsund,[2] in western Pomerania, which at the time was a Swedish Dominion inside the Holy Roman Empire.
Scheele's father, Joachim (or Johann[2]) Christian Scheele, was a grain dealer and brewer[2] from a respected Pomeranian fami