Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley (; 24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist who published over 150 works. He has historically been credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have strong claims to the discovery, Scheele having discovered it in 1772, two years before Priestley.During his lifetime, Priestley's considerable scientific reputation rested on his invention of carbonated water, his writings on electricity, and his discovery of several "airs" (gases), the most famous being what Priestley dubbed "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Priestley has received more than 1,346,548 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Joseph Priestley is the 129th most popular philosopher (up from 145th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 183rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Philosopher.

Joseph Priestley is most famous for his discovery of oxygen.