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Daniel Rutherford

1749 - 1819

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Daniel Rutherford (3 November 1749 – 15 November 1819) was a British physician, chemist and botanist who is known for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel Rutherford is the 276th most popular physicist (down from 266th in 2019), the 851st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 728th in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Physicist.

Daniel Rutherford is most famous for his discovery of nitrogen and oxygen.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Daniel Rutherford ranks 276 out of 851. Before him are David J. Wineland, Pierre Agostini, Gerard 't Hooft, John C. Mather, Masatoshi Koshiba, and Claude-Louis Navier. After him are John Robert Schrieffer, David Gross, Mihajlo Pupin, William Daniel Phillips, Valentin Ceaușescu, and Rolf Maximilian Sievert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Daniel Rutherford ranks 11. Before him are Christian VII of Denmark, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Domenico Cimarosa, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Yolande de Polastron, and Lorenzo Da Ponte. After him are Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Abraham Gottlob Werner, Vittorio Alfieri, Alexander Radishchev, and Martin Vahl. Among people deceased in 1819, Daniel Rutherford ranks 8. Before him are Charles IV of Spain, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Maria Luisa of Parma, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia, and Kamehameha I. After him are August von Kotzebue, Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco, Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, and Abbé Faria.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Daniel Rutherford ranks 851 out of 8,785. Before him are Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (1892), Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864), Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (1415), Samuel Richardson (1689), Eadwig (940), and Sawney Bean (1600). After him are H. Rider Haggard (1856), Sean Bean (1959), Charles Frederick Worth (1825), John Nelson Darby (1800), J. Bruce Ismay (1862), and Christopher Tolkien (1924).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Daniel Rutherford ranks 36. Before him are Andrew Huxley (1917), John Cockcroft (1897), William Shockley (1910), C. P. Snow (1905), Osborne Reynolds (1842), and Anthony James Leggett (1938). After him are Peter Mansfield (1933), Charles Wheatstone (1802), Freeman Dyson (1923), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), John Stewart Bell (1928), and Stephen Hales (1677).

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