Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Chemistry is important in our life and because of that, this science have a long story.

One of the persons who contributed a lot in the history of the chemistry was Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

Carl was born in Stralsund,Swedish Pomeranian  the year 1742.

He realized some works in the pharmaceutic area, but his most well known discoveries are the Oxygen,  chlorine, nitrogen and some others famous chemist elements. He created a Pharmacy in Pomeranian that had been very famous in his times.

The experiments that Carl realized were related with the discovery of many vegetal,animal and mineral acids, and also investigated some poison gases to found the way to avoid the dead for the effects of this gases.

This man had had very bad luck, because many of his discoveries were attributed to other persons related to chemistry, but now,  the persons who are more interested and related to study the history of the chemistry, know that Carl is one of the more important scientist in the chemistry area.

The life of Carl ended in the year 1786, just with 43 years old. The history says that one of the reasons why Carl Died too soon, is because this man had the habit to taste every element or chemical compound he discovered, so his dead is related with intoxication; probably with mercury.

He got the recognition he deserved in the year 1775 as a member of the real academy of the science in Switzerland.

For finish this entry, I like to say that Carl Wilhelm Scheele needs to be more popular in the science world, his discoveries had a important impact in the society, even in the presents days we use and experiment with all the elements and compounds that Carl had found out, so to me, is very important that every person in the chemistry area know the legacy of this man; Carl Wilhelm Scheele.