Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) was a pharmaceutical chemist who discovered chlorine, manganese, and oxygen.
Born in an area of Germany that was under Swedish jurisdiction, he became a pharmacist’s apprentice in Gothenburg, Sweden, at age 15 years. During his apprenticeship, he developed an interest in chemistry and spent much time experimenting with and reading about chemicals available in the pharmacy. Several years later, he moved to Malmo, Sweden, to work at a pharmacy and also began working with scientists at Lund University.
He moved several times to work in different pharmacies with various scientists. Scheele settled in a small town calling Koping to become an apothecary with his own business. He studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Scheele was known for his outstanding analytical skills in studying gases, despite his lack of equipment. He did not have a proper oven for generating heat and analyzing minerals. Scheele also used simple instruments that were borrowed or improvised.
He first contributed to the discovery of tartaric acid, later discovering chlorine and barium oxide. Scheele worked with black magnesia and manganese but was unable to isolate the manganese.
Working in all fields of chemistry, he studied mineral acids, including arsenic, molybdic, and tungstic. Scheele determined the properties of hydrofluoric acid and its salts, distinguished graphite and molybdenite, studied the effect of light on silver salts, and worked on phosphorous and...
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