Joseph Black (1728 to 1799) was a Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat and carbon dioxide. Born in Bordeaux, he studied at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh, writing a doctoral thesis on the treatment of kidney stones with magnesium carbonate. He was professor of anatomy and chemistry at Glasgow for ten years from 1756 and then professor of medicine and chemistry at Edinburgh from 1766, teaching there for more than thirty years. His carbon dioxide experiments, which he called fixed air, contributed to pneumatic chemistry, and about 1750 he developed an analytical balance far more accurate than any then in use.
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Joseph Black (16 April 1728-6 December 1799) was a Scottish physicist and chemist
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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.
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was a Scottish physicist and chemist
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was a Scottish physicist and chemist
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He was professor of anatomy and chemistry at the University of Glasgow for 10 years from 1756
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was a Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide
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