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Joseph Priestley

An English clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, and educator (1733–1804). Priestley is best known for isolating and characterizing several gases, most famously 'dephlogisticated air' (oxygen) in 1774. Despite his groundbreaking experimental work, he remained a staunch defender of the phlogiston theory even after Antoine Lavoisier's oxygen theory gained widespread acceptance.

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