Josiah Parsons Cooke
# Josiah Parsons Cooke

Josiah Parsons Cooke (Boston, 12 de outubro de 1827 — Newport, Rhode Island, 3 de setembro de 1894) foi um químico estadunidense. ---
       - One of the most striking characteristics of this new modification of oxygen is its peculiar odor, and hence Schönbein calls it ozone, from a Greek verb signifying to smell. It frequently happens that a great discovery supplies the wanting links between a number of obscure facts, and thus adds quite as much to our knowledge by its indirect bearings as by the positive additions it makes to the general stock. So it has been with the discovery of ozone. Every one who has used an electrical machine must have noticed the peculiar smell which follows the electrical discharge. This was formerly supposed to be the odor of the electrical fluid itself; but as soon as ozone was discovered, the odor was recognized at once as belonging to this new agent, and it was soon ascertained that electricity is one of the most efficient means of modifying the oxygen of the air.
          - Cooke, J. P. (1880). Religion and Chemistry. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. p. 116.