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magnesium | discoverers
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Joseph Black
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full name | Joseph Black date of birth | Friday, April 16, 1728 (292 years ago) place of birth | Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France date of death | Friday, December 6, 1799 (age: 71 years) (220 years ago) place of death | Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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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.
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