Daniel Rutherford
1749-1819
Scottish chemist generally credited with dissevering nitrogen (1772). Joseph Black assigned him the task of investigating air incapable of supporting combustion. After care...
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An uncle of the great novelist Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Rutherford was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Following in the footsteps of his father, who had been a professor of medicine at the Universit...
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An uncle of the great novelist Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Rutherford was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Following in the footsteps of his father, who had been a professor of medicine at the Universit...
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