Joseph Black
1728 CE–1799 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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- Daniel Bernoulli· 1700 CE–1782 CE
- Benjamin Franklin· 1706 CE–1790 CE
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon· 1707 CE–1788 CE
- Leonhard Euler· 1707 CE–1783 CE
- Carl Linnaeus· 1707 CE–1778 CE
- Roger Joseph Boscovich· 1711 CE–1787 CE
- Alexis Clairaut· 1713 CE–1765 CE
- Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille· 1713 CE–1762 CE
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert· 1717 CE–1783 CE
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi· 1718 CE–1799 CE
- Tobias Mayer· 1723 CE–1762 CE
- Charles Messier· 1730 CE–1817 CE
- Henry Cavendish· 1731 CE–1810 CE
- Jérôme Lalande· 1732 CE–1807 CE
- Nevil Maskelyne· 1732 CE–1811 CE
- Joseph Priestley· 1733 CE–1804 CE
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange· 1736 CE–1813 CE
- William Herschel· 1738 CE–1822 CE
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele· 1742 CE–1786 CE
- Antoine Lavoisier· 1743 CE–1794 CE
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck· 1744 CE–1829 CE
- Alessandro Volta· 1745 CE–1827 CE
- Edward Jenner· 1749 CE–1823 CE
- Pierre-Simon Laplace· 1749 CE–1827 CE
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- Catherine the Great· 1729 CE–1796 CE
- George Washington· 1732 CE–1799 CE
- Joseph II· 1741 CE–1790 CE
- Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar· 1742 CE–1797 CE
- Abdulhamid I· 1725 CE–1789 CE
- Qianlong Emperor· 1711 CE–1799 CE
- Rama I· 1737 CE–1809 CE
- Toussaint Louverture· 1743 CE–1803 CE
- Charles III of Spain· 1716 CE–1788 CE
- Ivan VI· 1740 CE–1764 CE
- Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea)· 1743 CE–1807 CE
- Tipu Sultan· 1751 CE–1799 CE
- Andrianampoinimerina· –1810 CE
- Hyder Ali· 1720 CE–1782 CE
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