Joseph Priestley
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 t...
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Joseph Priestley Isolates Many New Gases and Begins a European Craze for Soda Water
Overview
Until the late eighteenth century, the accepted theory of chemical reaction was the "phlogiston theo...
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Joseph Priestley
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 understa...
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Joseph Priestley
Born March 24, 1733
Fieldhead, England
Died February 6, 1804
Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Scientist, philosopher, teacher, minister
Joseph Priestley. International Portrait Galler...
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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 ...
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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 Pri...
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Joseph Priestley's range of intellectual interests was great, even by the standards of the eighteenth century. He was a Dissenting minister, and his chief concerns were theological. His scientific wor...
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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 sci...
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Priestley was born into a religious Calvinist family, and was encouraged by his parents to enter the ministry, not in the Church of England, but in the Dissenting church. In 1752 he enrolled in the ne...
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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 th...
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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 th...
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