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Preface.--Biographical sketch.--Scheele's achievements.--Pictures pertaining to Scheele's life history (p. 19-56)--Time table of Scheele's experiments as reported by ...

THE bicentenary of the birth of the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, whose recently published manuscripts were reviewed in our columns on November 7, falls on December 19. His birthplace was ...

If anyone tells you that all you need to do to succeed is work hard, just mention Carl Wilhelm Scheele. They’ll say, “Who?” And your point will be proved. This may be the most accomplished chemist ...

Citric acid is an important natural compound that has been known since the late 18th century. The pioneering Swedish–German chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele isolated it from lemon juice in 1784. It has ...

Translations of parts of author's Chemische abhandlung von der luft und dem feuer, Upsala und Leipzig, 1777. Part 1 by Joseph Priestley is Alembic club reprint, no. 7. Reprint of the 1901 ed.

JUST as Edmund Spenser is called 'the poet's poet', so Carl Wilhelm Scheele merits the title of 'the chemist's chemist'. Lacking all formal training in science, he was instinctively the perfect ...

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