Daniel Rutherford

Chemist, Academic

1749 – 1819

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Who was Daniel Rutherford?

Daniel Rutherford FRSE FRCPE FLS FSA was a Scottish physician, chemist and botanist who is most famous for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772.

Rutherford was the uncle of the novelist Sir Walter Scott, but not related to the atomic theorist Ernest Rutherford. Rutherford was a well known Chemist, Botanist and Physician.

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Born
Nov 3, 1749
Edinburgh
Parents
Nationality
  • Scotland
Profession
Education
  • University of Edinburgh
Lived in
  • Edinburgh
Died
Nov 15, 1819
Edinburgh

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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