Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786)

Usage examples of scheele.

Morganthal, head of the firm of Morganthal, Brown and Shipperke, international bankers, was well aware that to Anna Scheele he owed more than mere money could repay.

He had never conceived of Miss Scheele as having any family or relations.

Bolford received Miss Scheele with the greeting accorded to a valued client, and the materials for a suit were considered.

Anna Scheele walked out of University College Hospital dressed as a nurse and may now be anywhere?

And when Victoria took her place, presumably Anna Scheele, or Grete Harden, would die.

They had never intended that she should play the part of Anna Scheele at the Conference.

Anna Scheele disappeared, we thought it might be as well to give the other side something to think about.

Anna Scheele remained quietly in the nursing home till it was time for Mrs Pauncefoot Jones to join her husband out here.

Newton and Boyle from Scheele and Priestley and Henry Cavendish, it still had a long way to go.

Swedish apothecary Carl Wilhelm Scheele also has a strong claim to this distinction.

Apprenticed to an apothecary at the age of 14, Scheele became fascinated with the properties of the chemical compounds he worked with.

However, Scheele preferred to remain a provincial apothecary working undisturbed in his laboratory.

Bunsen was not self-taught as Scheele and Davy were, and he never had to serve an apprenticeship.

Perhaps if, instead of galls themselves, the peculiar acid of or other matter which strikes the black with iron were separated from the simple astringent matter, for which purpose two different processes are given by Piesenbring and by Scheele, this inconvenience might be avoided.