What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Joseph Priestley LLD FRS 1733 - 1804 Tutor at Warrington Academy 1761 - 1767 first to publish 'The Inverse Square Law of Electrostatics' and Discoverer of Oxygen Lived in a house that occupied this site from 1762 - 1767 Recorded plaque organisation: Warrington Civic Society - The Institute of Physics.
Dr Joseph Priestley FRS LLD was an influential theologian, philosopher, and scientist who discovered oxygen in 1774 and made significant contributions to electricity theory, including being the first to publish on 'The Inverse Square Law of Electrostatics'.
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