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Name: Karl Wilhelm Scheele
Birth Date: December 9, 1742
Death Date: May 26, 1786
Place of Birth: Stralsund, Swedish Pomerania
Place of Death: Solingen, Germany
Nationality: Swedish
Gender: Male
Occupations: chemist, pharmacist

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Biography of Carl Wilhelm Scheele
779 words, approx. 3 pages
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...
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Biography of Karl Wilhelm Scheele
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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...


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Karl Wilhelm Scheele Summary
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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...
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Karl Wilhelm Scheele Summary
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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,...
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele Information
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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...


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Pool & Spa News
A `taste' for discovery: eighteenth century chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovered chlorine, but his penchant for tasting his finds may have been his downfall. (profile).
11/15/2002: 352 words, approx. 1 pages
Several years ago, LIFE magazine named chlorine one of the Top 100 discoveries that changed the way we live. The man responsible for discovering this lifesaving, if sometimes controversial, element was a Swedish pharmacist named Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Scheele reportedly tasted...
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The Washington Post
Carl H. Scheele, 67, Dies; Curator for Smithsonian
10/06/1995: 1,292 words, approx. 4 pages
Carl H. Scheele, a historian and a curator at the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution who retired in 1987, died Sept. 29 after a heart attack at his home in Arlington. As a curator, Mr. Scheele created several temporary...
 


 

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