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  1. Born24 March [O.S. 13 March] 1733 · Birstall, Yorkshire, England
    Died6 February 1804 (aged 70) · Northumberland, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Known forDiscovery of oxygen (O₂) and nine other gases, including carbon monoxide (CO), nitric oxide (NO), nitrous oxide (N₂O), ammonia (NH₃), sulphur dioxide (SO₂), and nitrogen peroxide (N₂O₄) · Discovery of the carbon cycle
    Needham Market and Nantwich (1755–1761)

    Robert Schofield, Priestley's major modern biographer, describes his first "call" in 1755 to the Dissenting parish in Needham Market, Suffolk, as a "mistake" for both Priestley and the congregation. Priestley yearned for urban life a… See more

    Warrington Academy (1761–1767)

    In 1761, Priestley moved to Warrington in Cheshire and assumed the post of tutor of modern languages and rhetoric at the town's Dissenting academy, although he would have preferred to teach mathematics and natura… See more

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