He was a poor Swedish pharmacist, but extremely intelligent discovered many compounds such as that of chlorine which we use as bleach and oxygen among others and did not get credit for any of these discoveries. The reasons were different and yet complicated or even unknown, he had difficulty trying to make his discoveries public so many that years will pass and other more famous chemists will discover these compounds and will be able to publish the results and get credit for them. Scheele died young (43 years old) due to his insistence on tasting everything he worked with and was found dead in his