Joseph Priestley pioneered research into the nature and composition of gases involved in physiological processes, including air inspired and expired during the respiratory cycle, and was the first scientist to report the discovery of oxygen. Born into...

Born into a poor family in a village near Yorkshire, England, Priestley lost his mother at an early age and was sent to live with his aunt, a devout Protestant. He was educated at religious schools that endorsed nonconformist beliefs; he never formally...

The English clergyman and chemist Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) contributed to the foundation of the chemistry of gases and discovered the role of oxygen in the animal-plant metabolic system. Joseph Priestley was born on March 13, 1733, at Fieldhead....

1733-1804 English Physical Scientist and Theologian Joseph Priestley is best known for his discovery of oxygen, his fundamental studies of gases, and his contributions to the understanding of photosynthesis in plants. Priestley was largely...

1733-1804 English clergyman, author, and chemist who first isolated such gases as oxygen, nitrous oxide, and sulfur dioxide. Priestley studied for the ministry and eventually became the best-known and most controversial Unitarian minister in Britain....

Priestley, Joseph(1733–1804) Joseph Priestley, the English scientist, nonconformist minister, educator, and philosopher, was born at Birstall, Yorkshire, the son of a cloth dresser. His mother died in 1740, and in 1742 Priestley was adopted by a...

Born March 24, 1733 Fieldhead, England Died February 6, 1804 Northumberland, Pennsylvania Scientist, philosopher, teacher, minister Joseph Priestley. ....

Joseph Priestley (13 March 1733 (old style) – February 6, 1804) was an 18th-century British theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works. He is usually credited with the discovery...

PRESIDENT THOMAS Jefferson of the United rates wrote to Joseph Priestley, clergyman and chemist, when the latter was seriously ill in 1801, 'Yours is one of the few lives precious to mankind, for the continuance of which every thinking man is solicitous.' Not...

The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773, by Robert E. Schofield. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xii, 305 pp. $45.00 U.S. Robert Schofield begins his biography of Joseph Priestley's early...

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 1, the 213th day of 2007. There are 152 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred years ago, on Aug. 1, 1907, the U.S. Air Force had its beginnings as the U.S. Army Signal Corps established an aeronautical division...