Daniel Rutherford FRSE FRCPE FLS FSA(Scot) (3 November 1749 – 15 December 1819) wis a Scots pheesician, chemist an botanist wha is maist famous for the isolation o nitrogen in 1772.
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Daniel Rutherford |
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 Daniel Rutherford. Mezzotint engravin in 1896 efter a portrait bi Sir Henry Raeburn. |
| Born | 3 November 1749
Edinburgh, Scotland |
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| Dee'd | 15 December 1819[1] (aged 70)
Edinburgh |
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| Naitionality | Scots |
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| Alma mater | University o Edinburgh |
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| Kent for | Nitrogen |
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| Scientific career |
| Fields | Chemistry |
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| Institutions | Pheesician in Edinburgh (1775-86)
Professor o Medicine an Botany, Edinburgh University, an Keeper o the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (1786-1819)
Keeng's Botanist in Scotland (1786-)
Pheesician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (1791) |
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| Influences | Joseph Black |
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| Author abbrev. (botany) | Rutherf. |
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