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Nature 439, 395-396 (26 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439395a; Published online 25 January 2006
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BOOK REVIEWED-A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen
by Joe Jackson
Viking: 2005. 384 pp. $27.95, £17.99
One of the most famous episodes in the history of chemistry is the race for priority between the two rival champions of oxygen, Joseph Priestley and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Priestley was a Unitarian minister who divided his life between laboratory experiments and theology, and was forced to move from England to exile in the United States.
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