CHEMIST

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

1742 - 1786

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Carl Wilhelm Scheele (German: [ˈʃeːlə], Swedish: [ˈɧêːlɛ]; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a German Swedish pharmaceutical chemist. Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Wilhelm Scheele has received more than 632,765 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Carl Wilhelm Scheele is the 13th most popular chemist (up from 15th in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Germany (up from 136th in 2019) and the most popular German Chemist.

Carl Wilhelm Scheele is most famous for discovering oxygen.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Carl Wilhelm Scheele ranks 13 out of 602. Before him are Robert Boyle, Amedeo Avogadro, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Svante Arrhenius, and Fritz Haber. After him are Wilhelm Ostwald, Otto Hahn, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Linus Pauling, and Edwin McMillan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, Carl Wilhelm Scheele ranks 2. Before him is Pope Pius VII. After him are Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Yemelyan Pugachev, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Nicolas Leblanc, Dositej Obradović, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, François Laurent d'Arlandes, and Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart. Among people deceased in 1786, Carl Wilhelm Scheele ranks 2. Before him is Frederick the Great. After him are Moses Mendelssohn, Peter III of Portugal, Maurice Benyovszky, Franz Benda, Tokugawa Ieharu, John Goodricke, Eva Ekeblad, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Antonio Sacchini, and Hans Joachim von Zieten.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Wilhelm Scheele ranks 117 out of 7,253. Before him are Clara Zetkin (1857), Bruce Willis (1955), Theodor W. Adorno (1903), Nikolaus Otto (1832), Walter Benjamin (1892), and Charles the Fat (839). After him are Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845), Leni Riefenstahl (1902), Novalis (1772), Wim Wenders (1945), Augustus II the Strong (1670), and Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Carl Wilhelm Scheele ranks 1. After him are Otto Hahn (1879), Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Emil Fischer (1852), Eduard Buchner (1860), Justus von Liebig (1803), Robert Bunsen (1811), Carl Bosch (1874), August Kekulé (1829), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Adolf Butenandt (1903), and Adolf Windaus (1876).

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