Carl Wilhelm Scheele, The Most Unlucky Scientist
Scheele discovered various elements in chemistry but didn’t receive credit for most of them.
A Swedish scientist was busy working in his lab. All of a sudden, he fell to the ground. His colleagues were unaware of what might have killed him. It was his invention that killed him. The scientist Carl Scheele should have received the credit of being the human being who found the most elements in the periodic table. Unfortunately, many of us don’t even know his name.
Puzzled Chemistry:
Chemistry was the backbone of the industrial revolution. Still, it lacked a formal organization to run it for a long time. Geology, Physics, and mathematics had a specialized organization to monitor and inform the latest developments in their respective fields. In the world of the industrial age, chemistry was considered a blue color job by Victorians. Chemistry took a back seat, and many chemists across the globe were reinventing the wheel. Hening Brand was one such scientist. Brand believed that human urine had gold in it. Probably he made this decision due to its color. He collected urine…
