joseph priestley

     

Joseph Priestley (13 March 1733 (Ol Style) – 6 February 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 of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have a claim to the discovery.

Trivia about joseph priestley

  • He invented carbonated water as a byproduct of his investigations into the chemistry of air
  • In 1770 this oxygen discoverer found that rubber could be used to erase pencil marks
  • This British chemist discovered oxygen in 1774, years after Carl Wilhelm Scheele, a Swedish chemist
  • When this scientist discovered oxygen, he called it dephlogisticated air

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