Scheele's fame has been eclipsed by other chemists who made the same discoveries just a little earlier or who followed through on their experiments more thoroughly. Still, Scheele, who began training at age fourteen to be an apothecary has been...

The Swedish pharmacist and chemist Karl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) discovered chlorine and oxygen and isolated and characterized a variety of organic acids. Karl Wilhelm Scheele was born on Dec. 9, 1742, at Stralsund in Swedish Pomerania. His formal...

1742-1786 Swedish Chemist and Druggist Swedish-born chemist whose record as a discoverer of new elements, compounds, and chemical reactions has long remained unequaled. Karl Wilhelm Scheele was born in Stralsund, Germany (formerly the capital of...

1742-1786 Swedish chemist who made many contributions to chemistry, including the discovery of oxygen. He probably prepared oxygen, which he called "fire-air," as early as 1772, two years before Joseph Priestley. Scheele, however,...

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...