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Daniel Rutherford FRSE FRCPE FLS FSA(Scot) (3 November 1749 – 15 November 1819) was a Scottish physician, chemist and botanist who is known for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772.
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.
Daniel Rutherford (1749-1819) - Our History. Professor of Botany, 1786-1819. Contents. 1 Early Life. 2 Rutherford in Edinburgh. 3 Publications. 4 Relationships. Early Life. Physician and botanist, Daniel Rutherford was born in Edinburgh on 3 November 1749.
discovery of nitrogen. …recognized by a Scottish botanist, Daniel Rutherford (who was the first to publish his findings), by the British chemist Henry Cavendish, and by the British clergyman and scientist Joseph Priestley, who, with Scheele, is given credit for the discovery of oxygen.
- Daniel Rutherford – Background
- Mephitic Air vs Phlogiscated Air
- The Discovery of Nitrogen
- Later Life
The second son of Professor John Rutherford and his second wife Anne Mackay, Daniel Rutherford was born in Edinburgh on 3 November 1749. Educated at first at home, he was sent, when seven years old, to the school of a Mr. Mundell, afterwards to an academy in England, and thence to the University of Edinburgh, where, after graduating M.A., he entere...
The mephitic air he supposed to have been probably generated from the food, and to have been expelled as a harmful substance from the blood, by means of the lungs. He found experimentally that air passed over ignited charcoal and treated with caustic lye behaves in the same way as air made noxious by respiration. He continued that when a metal, pho...
Being convinced of the contemporary phlogiston theory that postulated a fire-like element called phlogiston, contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion – Rutherford explained his results in terms of it. The residue of air left after burning, in fact a mixture of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, was therefore referred to as phlog...
After publication and having completed his university course, Rutherford travelled in England, went to Francein 1773, and thence to Italy. He returned in 1775 to Edinburgh, where he began to practise. He became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1776 and a fellow the year after. He was president of the college from Dece...
But Daniel Rutherford (1749-1819), a Scottish chemist, physician, and botanist, explored the overgeneralized theory. He investigated more acutely what really composed these “phlogistons.” Experimentally Isolating Nitrogen. Rutherford postulated the existence of a gas that does not catalyze combustion reactions.
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Daniel Rutherford. Born in Edinburgh, Rutherford was the son of John Rutherford a professor of medicine. Daniel spent his early years as a student in Edinburgh University. As a student of Edinburgh University, Rutherford was a pupil of Joseph Black.
