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Discovery of oxygen commemorated at Joseph Priestley’s grave

Nature
Centennial celebrations mark the discovery of oxygen, and a physicist shares ideas about why the pyramids were built, in our weekly dip into Nature's archive.
5 months ago

Museum to celebrate Joseph Priestley's monumental discovery of oxygen 250 years ago

The Daily Item
NORTHUMBERLAND — A quarter millennium later, the legacy of18th century writer and scientist Joseph Priestley lives on in central...
5 months ago

Joseph Priestley mural to mark anniversary of oxygen discovery

BBC
The scientist who discovered oxygen 250 years ago will be honoured with a mural to mark the anniversary. Joseph Priestley made the...
8 months ago

Joseph Priestley: How oxygen was first isolated in Calne

BBC
Joseph Priestley is perhaps best remembered for his science - especially in Wiltshire, where he captured oxygen 250 years ago this month.
5 months ago

Calne celebrates 250th anniversary of oxygen discovery

BBC
A community has hosted an event to honour the 250th anniversary of the discovery of oxygen. Joseph Priestley made the breakthrough while working as a librarian.
5 months ago

The Birmingham Riots of 1791

University of Birmingham
On 14 July 1791 a group of leading Birmingham Nonconformists held a dinner at a hotel in Temple Row to mark the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in...
8 months ago

JOSEPH-PRIESTLEY-REMEMBERED

Chemical & Engineering News
18th-century chemist Joseph Priestley at last month's American Chemical Society national meeting in Philadelphia.
81 months ago

Joseph Priestley, Radical Inventor

JSTOR Daily
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) usually makes an appearance in histories of science as the person who isolated and described eight “airs” (gasses), including...
67 months ago

Depicting data

Royal Society
Ellen Embleton looks into the history of data visualisation, and highlights the work of Joseph Priestley, Luke Howard and Florence Nightingale.
41 months ago

Chemists Award Darleane Hoffman Joseph Priestley Medal

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (.gov)
Darleane Hoffman, a chemist with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been awarded the Priestley Medal.
73 months ago