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Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), an English scientist who discovered the component gas of the atmosphere subsequently named oxygen by the French chemist, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794), whose learning of Priestley experiments critically influenced the future course of Lavoisier's career as a chemist that led to a revolution in the principles of chemistry, the beginnings of modern chemistry, a new understanding of chemical science that enabled the Englishman, John Dalton, to formulate a chemical atomic theory, the bedrock of modern chemistry.[1][Note 1]
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Ref: Jackson J. (2005): Full biographies of Joseph Priestley and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. See review in American Scientist: A Tale of Two Chemists by Seymour Mauskopf.
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- ↑ Jackson J. (2005) A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen. New York: Viking. | Chapter titles: Prologue: God in the air. The cloth-dresser's son. The sums and receipts of parallel worlds. The gas in the beer. The prodigy. The goodness of air. The problem of burning. The sentimental journey. The mouse in the jar. The twelve days. The language of war. "King Mob". The world out of joint. The new world. Epilogue: the burning world. | Google Books preview.