Abstract
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 investigator. In experimental technique, Campbell Brown has remarked in his “History of Chemistry”, Scheele has never been surpassed. “His discoveries were the result of carefully planned series of experiments, and he left nothing in doubt where experiment could decide it. He is a model to all who are engaged in chemical research.”
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Manuskript 1756–1777. Tolkning av C. W. Oseen. Pp. vi + 173. Manuskript 1756–1777. Ordnade av C. W. Oseen. Ljustryck. Pp. v + 182. (Stockholm: K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, 1942.)
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KENDALL, J. Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Nature 150, 532–533 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150532a0
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