Carl Wilhelm Scheele
December 9, 1742 –May 21, 1786
Chemist, Pharmacist, Pharmacologist
Lived 43 years
- Born in
- Stralsund
- Passed away in
- Köping
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.
Doctors said that he died of mercury poisoning, having spent his life working as a chemist.
Education: Uppsala University
Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wilhelm_Scheele