Person
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
1742–1786
also: Carl Scheele
Swedish-German chemist who isolated oxygen (“fire air”) around 1771–72, before Priestley, but published only in 1777.
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Discovered
Independently discovered
- Oxygen (O₂)
1772 · disputed
Formulated
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