However, in Britain, Joseph Priestley is perhaps best remembered ... what we now know as oxygen. So he nearly discovered photosynthesis." Photosynthesis was discovered by someone he knew, Jan ...

While competing in a game show called 'The greatest science investigator of all time', Joseph Priestley describes his work. He explains how he discovered carbon dioxide (heavy air) and oxygen ...

A community has hosted an event to honour the 250th anniversary of the discovery of oxygen. Joseph Priestley made the ...

After scholar-archaeologist John Marshall revealed the Indus Civilisation to the world in 1924, a look at the science behind ...

Joseph Priestley was one of the most remarkable ... Most significantly, Priestley discovered oxygen (although it was his French rival Antoine Lavoisier who gave the gas the name we use).

But beginning in the 17th century, a new era of scientific inquiry and discovery began to reveal ... 1772: Antoine Lavoisier and Joseph Priestley conduct experiments similar to Scheele's in ...

Now, however, the sensational discovery has come under scrutiny as researchers pick holes in the original findings, arguing that this so-called "dark oxygen" may not exist after all. The debate ...

A few years previous to this, in 1774, Joseph Priestley, the English clergyman, had found that when the red calx of mercury is heated oxygen gas ... of combination was discovered in 1804 by ...

The artwork in Calne will mark Joseph Priestley's historic discovery in the town in 1774. Experts in the region say it is due to a depletion of oxygen after high water temperatures.

In Birstall Market Place stands one in honour of Joseph Priestley ... were named after him - Priestley College, Warrington and Leeds - an asteroid discovered in 1986 was named 5577 Priestley.