# Carl Wilhelm Scheele

> He discovered oxygen but another chemist published first. He also isolated molybdenum, tungsten, barium, nitrogen, chlorine, and a catalog of acids that became the working vocabulary of early chemistry — then died of mercury poisoning at forty-three.

*Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Sweden
- **Born:** 1742-12-09
- **Died:** 1786-05-21
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Carl Wilhelm Scheele was born 9 December 1742, a German speaker who spent his career as a pharmaceutical chemist in Sweden. He identified oxygen independently, though Joseph Priestley's publication came first. The same hands isolated molybdenum, tungsten, barium, nitrogen, and chlorine, then moved to organic acids: tartaric, oxalic, uric, lactic, citric. He found hydrofluoric, hydrocyanic, and arsenic acids as well. He spoke German among his fellow Swedish pharmacists and never switched. On 21 May 1786, doctors attributed his death to mercury poisoning — the cost of a life spent working directly with the elements he'd pulled into the light.

## Fame
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- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #228
- **Category rank:** #221

## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Chemistry, #Sweden, #Europe, #Early Modern Era

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