• Scheele is a surname of Germanic origin. Notable people with the surname include: Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist...
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    Carl Wilhelm Scheele (German: [ˈʃeːlə], Swedish: [ˈɧêːlɛ]; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a German Swedish pharmaceutical chemist. Scheele discovered...
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    Scheele is a tiny, bowl-shaped lunar impact crater that lies on the Oceanus Procellarum, to the south of the small crater Wichmann. To the southwest is...
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    Scheele's green, also called Schloss green, is chemically a cupric hydrogen arsenite (also called copper arsenite or acidic copper arsenite), CuHAsO 3...
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  • Sir Nicholas Vernon Scheele KCMG (3 January 1944 – 18 July 2014) was an English business executive who served as president, from 2001–05, and Chief Operating...
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    Leonard Andrew Scheele (July 25, 1907 – January 8, 1993) was an American physician and public servant. He was appointed the seventh Surgeon General of...
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    Karin Scheele (born July 22, 1968 in Baden bei Wien) is an Austrian social democratic politician and was a member of the European Parliament from 1999...
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  • Judith Scheele is a social anthropologist, who works in the Sahara. Scheele is based at the EHESS, France. Scheele obtained her DPhil (PhD) from the University...
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    Paul-Werner Scheele (6 April 1928 – 10 May 2019) was a German Catholic prelate and theologian. Born in Olpe, Scheele was ordained to the priesthood in...
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    Scheele (born 30 September 1956) is a German politician (SPD). On 1 April 2017, he became chairman of the German Federal Employment Agency. Scheele was...
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  • Devolution, de-evolution, or backward evolution (not to be confused with dysgenics) is the notion that species can revert to supposedly more primitive...
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  • George Heinrich Adolf Scheele (1808–1864) was a German botanist and 19th century explorer. He was an expert on spermatophytes Scheele was the first person...
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    was only recognised around 1630 by Jan Baptist van Helmont. Carl Wilhelm Scheele wrote a description of chlorine gas in 1774, supposing it to be an oxide...
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  • Hans Scheele (18 December 1908 in Kirchwerder – 23 July 1941) was a German athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was killed in action during...
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    Kyle Scheele was hired to stage a prank in which Scheele would place a cardboard cutout of himself advertising the "Kyle Scheele meal". Scheele created...
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  • Thomas von Scheele (born March 13, 1969) is a left-handed Swedish table tennis player. He competed in the men's doubles event at the 1996 Summer Olympics...
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    in the form of nitrite (NO− 2) salts. It was discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who called it "phlogisticated acid of niter". Nitrous acid is used to...
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  • The Scheele Award (Scheelepriset) is a scientific award given by the Swedish Apotekarsocieteten [sv], an organisation mainly consisting of pharmacists...
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    chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786). This was a result of Scheele's work studying fluorite and hydrofluoric acid. Scheele may have been the first...
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    subsequently prepared from Prussian blue by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1782, and was eventually given the German name Blausäure (lit. "Blue...
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    roemeriana (Scheele) H.S.Irwin & Barneby". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 3 May 2023. "Senna roemeriana (Scheele) Irwin...
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    Vallisneri. Lactose was identified as a sugar in 1780 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele. In 1812, Heinrich Vogel (1778–1867) recognized that glucose was a product...
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    1956: The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of War (2012). Scheele, Henry Z. "The 1956 Nomination of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Maintaining the...
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    Ludvig Nicolaus von Scheele (14 October 1796 – 1 January 1874) was a Danish statesman, serving as Danish Foreign Minister between 1855 and 1857. A political...
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    attributed the effect to its viscous nature. In 1777, the chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele was studying the more intrinsically light-sensitive silver chloride and...
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    grown. Citric acid was first isolated in 1784 by the chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who crystallized it from lemon juice. Industrial-scale citric acid production...
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  • lyricist and novelist. JPL · 12355 12356 Carlscheele 1993 RM14 Carl Wilhelm Scheele, a Swedish apothecary. JPL · 12356 12357 Toyako 1993 ST1 Lake Tōya ("Toyako"...
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    rtraitExtended/mw04847/Henry-John-Temple-3rd-Viscount-Palmerston? Scheele & Scheele p.68 https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/m...
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  • Hans-Karl von Scheele (23 May 1892 – 8 October 1955) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross...
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    the original on May 9, 2018. Retrieved May 30, 2019. Barker, Meg-John; Scheele, Julia (2016). Queer: A Graphic History. London: Icon Books. ISBN 978-1-78578-071-4...
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