Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Died when: 43 years 163 days (521 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (German: [ˈʃeːlə], Swedish: [ˈɧêːlɛ]; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a Swedish German pharmaceutical chemist.
Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, 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.
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