Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley FRSwas an 18th-century English theologian, dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and Liberal political theorist who published over 150 works. He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have a claim to the discovery...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth13 March 1733
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