Daniel Rutherford FRSE FRCPE FLS FSA(Scot) (1749–1819) 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
Read more about Daniel Rutherford: Early Life, Isolation of Nitrogen
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