-
Essay / The invention of the periodic table - 573
It was a poor but extremely intelligent Swedish pharmacist who discovered many compounds like that of chlorine which we use among other things as a bleach and oxygen and did not got no credit for any of these discoveries. The reasons were multiple and yet complicated and even unknown, he had difficulty making his discoveries public, so much so that years passed and other best-known chemists discovered these compounds and were able to publish their discoveries and get credit for it. Scheele died young (43) because he insisted on tasting everything he worked with and was found dead in his