In 1756 this man succeeded his teacher William Cullen as professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, having finished his medical degree at the University of Edinburgh where he began the study of magnesia alba that would later lead to his greatest discoveries.
In 1756 this man succeeded his teacher William Cullen as professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, having finished his medical degree at the University of Edinburgh where he began the study of magnesia alba that would later lead to his greatest discoveries. In the 1760's he began to incorporate into his lectures his observation that melting ice takes up heat without changing temperature and that different bodies in equal masses require different amounts of heat to raise them to the same temperature, but he is best known for an earlier discovery he called "fixed air". FTP name this chemist, discoverer of latent heat, fixed heat, and what is now called Carbon Dioxide.
In 1756 this man succeeded his teacher William Cullen as professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, having finished his medical degree at the University of Edinburgh where he began the study of magnesia alba that would later lead to his greatest discoveries.
Joseph Black