Mayow, John

English chemist and physiologist

Oct 6, 2023 - 12:15
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Mayow, detail of an engraving

John Mayow, (born May 24, 1640, London, Eng.—died October 1679, London), English chemist and physiologist who, about a hundred years before Joseph Priestley and Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, identified spiritus nitroaereus (oxygen) as a distinct atmospheric entity.

Though a doctor of law from the University of Oxford (1670), Mayow made medicine his profession. His writings include a remarkably correct anatomical description of respiration and a recognition of the role of oxygen in the combustion of metals.

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