Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Chemist; found an acid, later named uric acid, in urinary calculi
- Dates
- 1742-1786 (source: Wikipedia: Carl Wilhelm Scheele (listed in research/02 §11) )
- Chapters
- V. What the Water Knew
What the film says
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Found a new acid in a bladder stone, which the film dates to 1776.
On the timeline
- 1776 (1775 in one source): Carl Wilhelm Scheele finds that urinary calculi contain a distinctive acid, later called uric acid. disputed timeline
Sources
Sources
- Pearson 1798, Experiments and observations on urinary concretions (Phil Trans, OCR) Primary
- Wikipedia: Uric acid (listed in research/02 §11) Secondary