title: Crediting six discoverers of oxygen.
abstract: Recent events have called long-overdue attention to one of the first investigators to discover the roles of something in air changing the color of the pulmonary blood flowing through the lung.
authors.affiliation: Emeritus Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94957, USA. jwseps@comcast.net.
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Severinghaus
mesh_terms: D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D010100:Oxygen / Q000266:history*
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen