Carl Wilhelm Scheele, the discoverer of oxygen, and a very productive chemist.

Stepping through science's door: C. W. Scheele, from pharmacist's apprentice to man of science.

This reinterpretation of Carl Wilhelm Scheele's (1742-86) early life and career analyses the social interplay between Scheele and other chemists who were active in eighteenth-century Sweden. It is argued that Scheele, a rather lowly journeyman working in peripheral pharmacies, had to work hard and traverse several geographical and social boundaries to gain a foothold in the scientific community...

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Figure 3. "Scheele Haus," the birthplace (1742) of Scheele, is the center building, located at Fiihrstrafie 23, Stra/sund, Gennany (N 54° 18.99; E 13° 05.56). This building is elegantly marked with a plaque and a small exhibit inside. The view is eastward, downhill toward the Baltic Sea only 200 meters away and from which cold winds often blow up the street. Occasional plaques in the city datin...

Chapter 4 ESTIMATION OF OPTICAL PURITY OF LACTIC ACID MONOMER

Priestley, the furious free thinker of the enlightenment, and Scheele, the taciturn apothecary of Uppsala.

AMERICANS are taught that the English Unitarian minister Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen in 1774. Scandinavians are taught that the Swedish apothecary Carl Wilhelm Scheele generated oxygen in Uppsala in 1771–2, several years before Priestley. Scheele claimed that he wrote Lavoisier, describing the experiments in September, 1774. However, Lavoisier denied seeing or receiving his letter. Among...

Lactate in the human fetus.

Lactic acid or o( -hydroxyproprionic acid is an organic acid which belongs to the family of carboxylic acids. Lactic acid is found in juices of certain plants and in soil. In the human, lactate is produced by the skeletal muscle, skin, blood cells, brain and eye tissues during anaerobic glucolysis. Lactic acid was first isolated by a Swedish chemist, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in 1780. In its pure f...