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 University of Edinburgh for nearly 40 years, 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 carefully isolating and processing such air to remove carbon dioxide,...

Daniel Rutherford (3 November 1749 – 15 November 1819) was a Scottish chemist and physician who was most famous for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772. Daniel Rutherford was born in Edinburgh and was educated at the University of Edinburgh where...