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Joseph Black

1728 - 1799

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Joseph Black (16 April 1728 – 6 December 1799) was a British physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide. He was Professor of Anatomy and Chemistry at the University of Glasgow for 10 years from 1756, and then Professor of Medicine and Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from 1766, teaching and lecturing there for more than 30 years. The chemistry buildings at both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow are named after Black. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Black is the 102nd most popular chemist (down from 65th in 2019), the 520th most popular biography from France (up from 569th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Chemist.

Joseph Black was a Scottish chemist who discovered carbon dioxide. He also discovered the latent heat of vaporization of water, which is the amount of heat energy that is required to turn a liquid into a gas.

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Among chemists, Joseph Black ranks 102 out of 602. Before him are Theodore William Richards, William Howard Stein, Arne Tiselius, Stanford Moore, Konrad Emil Bloch, and Vincent du Vigneaud. After him are Henrik Dam, George de Hevesy, Paul J. Crutzen, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Paul Hermann Müller, and Odd Hassel.

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Among people born in 1728, Joseph Black ranks 4. Before him are James Cook, Peter III of Russia, and Johann Heinrich Lambert. After him are Anton Raphael Mengs, Niccolò Piccinni, Chevalier d'Éon, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, Antoine Baumé, Samuel Wallis, Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, and Étienne-Louis Boullée. Among people deceased in 1799, Joseph Black ranks 6. Before him are George Washington, Pope Pius VI, Qianlong Emperor, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, and Pierre Beaumarchais. After him are Lazzaro Spallanzani, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Tipu Sultan, Victoire of France, and Heshen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Black ranks 520 out of 6,770. Before him are Camille Desmoulins (1760), René Laennec (1781), Gregory of Tours (538), Edgard Varèse (1883), Georges Bataille (1897), and Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (1640). After him are Théodore Rousseau (1812), Joan I of Navarre (1273), Maurice Jarre (1924), Suger (1080), Lothair of France (941), and Pauline Bonaparte (1780).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Joseph Black ranks 11. Before him are Henri Moissan (1852), Alfred Werner (1866), Victor Grignard (1871), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), and Paul Sabatier (1854). After him are Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Proust (1754), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), and Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838).

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