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Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Portrait engraving of Scheele based on a 1789 commemorative medal, {{circa|1800}}<ref>{{cite book | last1=Partington | first1=J. R. | title=A History of Chemistry | chapter=Chemistry in Scandinavia. II. Scheele | date=1962 | pages=205–236 | doi=10.1007/978-1-349-00309-9_6 | chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-00309-9_6 }}</ref> Carl Wilhelm Scheele (, ; 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 by Scheele, Carl Wilhelm, 1742-1786

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