It was named (following a suggestion from Robert H. McNaught) after Joseph Priestley, as co-discoverer of the element oxygen, because green emission in the aurora (astronomy), due to atomic oxygen, occurs at a wavelength of 5577 angstroms (557.7 nanometers).
He was the father of Christian L. Ludwig (1749–1784), a physician/scientist known for his translations of Joseph Priestley's scientific experiments.
On April 15, 1770, Joseph Priestley described a vegetable gum to remove pencil marks: "I have seen a substance excellently adapted to the purpose of wiping from paper the mark of black lead pencil."
When Joseph Priestley came to Birmingham in 1780, he found an able assistant in Keir, who had discovered the distinction between carbon dioxide gas and atmospheric air.
In the 1770s Ingenhousz became interested in gaseous exchanges of plants prior to reading about the work of scientist Joseph Priestley (1733–1804),who found out that plants make and absorb gases.
As a young man Boston hovered on the outskirts of the Birmingham circle of radicals and, like Joseph Priestley, became a staunch republican.
During his sojourn in America, he became acquainted with Dr. Joseph Priestley, Thomas Jefferson, and other eminent men.
English chemist and co-discoverer of oxygen Joseph Priestley lived in Northumberland for the last decade of his life, until his death in 1804.
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Northumberland was the American home of eighteenth-century British theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, educator, and political theorist Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) from 1794 until his death in 1804.
In 1772, the chemist Joseph Priestley carried out a series of experiments relating to the gases involved in respiration and combustion.
Priestley College is named for Joseph Priestley (13 March 1733 – 8 February 1804), a clergyman, chemist and educator who was a pioneer in teaching modern history and the sciences.
It was built as an inn in 1820, and purchased in about 1880 by the theologian and scientist Joseph Priestley's great grandson Dr. Joseph Priestley.
In a series of papers he attributed the premature deaths or illnesses of the chemists Joseph Priestley, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Humphry Davy, William Cruickshank (chemist) and James Woodhouse to chemical poisoning.
Two decades before Playfair's first achievements, in 1765 Joseph Priestley had created the innovation of the first timeline charts, in which individual bars were used to visualize the life span of a person, and the whole can be used to compare the life spans of multiple persons.
Joseph Stalin | Joseph Conrad | Saint Joseph | Joseph Haydn | Joseph Beuys | Joseph | Joseph Goebbels | Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor | Joseph Barbera | Joseph Chamberlain | Joseph Brodsky | Franz Joseph I of Austria | Joseph Henry Blackburne | Joseph Banks | Joseph McCarthy | Joseph II | Joseph Campbell | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Joseph Priestley | Joseph Bonaparte | Joseph Pulitzer | Joseph Stiglitz | Joseph Paxton | Joseph Addison | Joseph Rothrock | Joseph Losey | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Joseph Story | Joseph Whitworth | Joseph Pitton de Tournefort |
The celebration of the centennial of chemistry at Northumberland, Pennsylvania, the home of Joseph Priestley, who discovered oxygen in 1774, was suggested and brought about by Bolton.
He published a series of German translations of the principal English writers on aesthetics, such as Charles Burney, Joseph Priestley and Richard Hurd; and also produced the first complete translation in German prose of Shakespeare's plays (William Shakespear's Schauspiele, 13 vols., Zürich, 1775–1782).
On 1 January 1826 he received a unanimous call from the Presbyterian congregation in Carter Lane, Doctors' Commons, London, and was ordained there on 2 March, in succession to John Hoppus His views were Arian, and he became the editor (1826–8) of an Arian monthly, the Christian Moderator; but he was in friendly relations with Thomas Belsham, the leader of those of Joseph Priestley's opinion.
Under the signature ‘Theophilus’ he contributed essays to Joseph Priestley's Theological Repository, 1769, i.
There are other statues of other worthy local people (Joseph Priestley, John Harrison, James Watt and Dr Walter Hook) and statues of eight nymphs, light standards by sculptor Alfred Drury.
She lived in a cottage behind Joseph Priestley's house off Clapton Square on the corner of Clapton Passage and Lower Clapton Road in Hackney.
Michael Hissmann (1752, Hermannstadt – 1784, Göttingen) was a German philosopher, a radical materialist who translated Condillac and Joseph Priestley into German.
Those in the provinces giving at least financial support included Joseph Priestley, Bishop Edmund Law, Joshua Toulmin, and William Turner.