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Georg Ernst Stahl
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Contributions to Chemistry and Phlogiston Theory
Stahl was also a professor of medicine and chemistry at the University of Halle. While his chemical theories were eventually displaced by the rise of oxygen theory championed by Antoine Lavoisier, Stahl was instrumental in popularizing and refining the phlogiston concept originally proposed by Johann Joachim Becher.
Stahl termed the supposed fiery, weightless element released during combustion as …