Daniel Rutherford
Scottish physician and chemist
Daniel Rutherford FRSE FRCPE FLS FSA was a Scottish physician, chemist and botanist who is known for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772. Wikipedia
Born: November 3, 1749, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Died: November 15, 1819 (age 70 years), Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Discovered: Nitrogen
Parents: John Rutherford and Anne Mackay
Children: Margaret Rutherford
Grandchildren: Adamina Dundas Duncan Haldane, Isabella Mitchelson Haldane, James Haldane, and more