Joseph Priestley

Dr. Brian McCarthy The Gifted Nature of Joseph Priestley Part 1: Rationale for choosing this person I became interested in Joseph Priestley during my undergraduate studies. The year I became involved in research was the same year that Furchgott, Ignarro and Murad won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine based on their research into "nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system" (nobelprize.org). The most famous application of this work has been the male stimulant,

Joseph Priestley was born March 24, 1773 and died February 6, 1804. Joseph was born in West Yorkshire New England. He was the oldest of 6 children, and his parents were Mary Swift and Jonas Priestley. Around the age of 7, Joseph was sent to live with his aunt. He was very intelligent and by the age of 4 he could recite all 107 questions and answers from the book Westminster Shorter Catechism. His aunt intended for him to go into ministry work, and sent him to Daventry Academy for his education

Joseph Priestly was an English scientist who found out about oxygen. Joseph Priestly had thought before that there was more than one type of air. He discovered eight gases of which one was oxygen. The element of oxygen was discovered by him during his many experiments. He did this by an experiment involving the isolation of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Joseph Priestly discovery of oxygen was significant by revealing the process of photosynthesis. Joseph Priestly discovered oxygen because of where

Joseph Priestley was born and raised in England before immigrating to Pennsylvania in his later life. Priestley lived in the 18th century and contributed much to the fields of chemistry and biology. Priestley is considered important for many reasons, one of the main reasons being because of his discovery of oxygen. Priestley also discovered Nitrous oxide in 1772. An important discovery in the field of biology, was Priestleys' documentation of photosynthesis. Joseph Priestly was born on March 24th

solely one individual. Both Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier should receive credit for proposing new ideology and experimental findings that lead to the discovery of oxygen. With his experiment using a twelve-inch wide glass-burning lens in 1774, Priestley was the second to make the claim about the existence of oxygen and referred to this as the discovery of dephlogisticated air (American Chemical Society International Historic Chemical Landmarks). Hence, Priestley should be credited for the

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier was born in Paris, France, August 26, 1743. Lavoisier’s parents, Jean-Antoine Lavoisier, a lawyer, and Emilie Punctis, belonged to a rich and influential family. Lavoisier’s father was also a member of the prestigious Order of Barristers. Lavoisier’s family had been of service to the kings of France. Lavoisier’s had one sibling, her name was Marie Marguerite Emilie. She was born in 1745. Lavoisier’s sister died at the age of fifteen. Their mother died when Lavoisier was

Adopt an Element: Oxygen I look down at my periodic table that my chemistry teacher had just handed out to me. It contained a variety of colors and elements. It’s amazing how so many elements exists, I wonder if I can be someone so amazing to discover a new element. I run my hand over the newly copied, thin paper. I abruptly stop at the right side of the paper, where my pointer finger points at the first element of column 16 and the sixth element of period 2. Its name is oxygen. What’s so special

and analyze how Priestly controls tension and suspense. In ‘An Inspector Calls’ Priestley manipulates tension and suspense to give us insight on his political and social views (eg. the class system). He builds up tension and suspense during the course of the acts ending with a cliffhanger, leaving the audience curious and guessing as to what would happen next. For example, the Inspector’s entrance where Priestley creates tension by using lighting. The lighting initially ‘pink and intimate’, possibly

As a contemporary writer observing the timeline of modern science, and all the abridgments made to it over the past few centuries, one cannot help but ponder upon the course that science took to reach what it is today. We are aware of the pioneers of science such as Newton, Lavoisier, Stahl, Joule, Maxwell, Einstein etc, and all of the groundbreaking contributions these extraordinary individuals made to mould science into what we today know it to be. Over the course of History of Science, we have

Antoine Lavoisier was instrumental in the creation of chemistry. Born into an aristocratic family before the French revolution, (a series of events that would result in the loss of his life) Antoine Lavoisier was able to marry a wealthy daughter and gain enough resources to conduct scientific studies despite being trained in law (due largely to pressure from his father). Antoine Lavoisier was destined to become known by history as the father of chemistry due to his revolutionizing of the chemical