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Joseph Black

Joseph Black

1728 CE1799 CE · Bordeaux (Burdigala)

Joseph Black (16 April 1728 – 6 December 1799) was a Scottish 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.

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Burdigala, modern Bordeaux in southwestern France, was the chief city of Roman Aquitania. It was the home of the fourth-century Latin poet and teacher Ausonius, who taught rhetoric there before being summoned to the imperial court and who celebrated his native city in verse.

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