Scottish physician Daniel Rutherford was born on November 3, 1749. Rutherford discovered
nitrogen in 1772, calling it "noxious air" or "phlogisticated air." When Rutherford married Harriet Mitchelson of Middleton in 1786 he became the maternal uncle of the future novelist Sir Walter Scott.
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| Engraved portrait of Rutherford |
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