biography
| name: |
Scheele, Carl Wilhelm
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pronunciation:
[sheeluh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1742–86)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Stralsund, NE Germany. He was apprenticed to an apothecary at Gothenburg, and worked as an apothecary at Malmö, Stockholm, Uppsala, and Köping. Experimenting in his spare time, he probably discovered more new substances than any other experimenter, but did not publish his results immediately, and thus did not receive the same acclaim as others who made similar discoveries later but published before him. Among his major discoveries were oxygen (1772), which he called ‘fire air’, chlorine (1774), glycerine, and hydrogen sulphide, as well as several types of acid. He was elected to the Stockholm Royal Academy of Sciences in 1777. |
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