1. Daniel Rutherford was a British physician, chemist and botanist who is known for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772.
11 Facts About Daniel Rutherford
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Daniel Rutherford began college at the age of 16 at Mundell's School on the West Bow close to his family home, and then studied medicine under William Cullen and Joseph Black at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a doctorate in 1772.
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Daniel Rutherford was a professor of botany at the University of Edinburgh and the 5th Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1786 to 1819.
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Daniel Rutherford was president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1796 to 1798.
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Daniel Rutherford's pupils included Thomas Brown of Lanfine and Waterhaughs.
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Daniel Rutherford died suddenly in Edinburgh on 15 November 1819.
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Daniel Rutherford's sister died two days later and the second sister only seven days after the latter.
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Daniel Rutherford was the uncle of novelist Sir Walter Scott.
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Daniel Rutherford discovered nitrogen by the isolation of the particle in 1772.
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Daniel Rutherford kept a mouse in a space with a confined quantity of air until it died.
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Daniel Rutherford called the gas "noxious air" or "phlogisticated air".