Editing Daniel Rutherford (section)

{{Short description|Scottish physician, chemist and botanist}}
{{for|the Scottish mathematician|Daniel Edwin Rutherford}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Daniel Rutherford
| image             = Daniel Rutherford (1749-1819).jpg
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| birth_date        = {{birth date|df=y|1749|11|03}}
| birth_place       = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland
| death_date        = {{death date and age|df=y|1819|11|15|1749|11|3}}<ref name="Waterston">{{cite book|last1=Waterston|first1=Charles D.|last2=Macmillan Shearer|first2=A.|title=Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002: Biographical Index|url=http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=8 February 2011|volume=II|date=July 2006|publisher=[[The Royal Society of Edinburgh]]|location=Edinburgh|isbn=978-0-902198-84-5|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004113303/http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 October 2006}}</ref>
| death_place       = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland
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| field             = [[Chemistry]]
| work_institutions = Physician, Edinburgh (1775–86)<br />Professor of medicine and botany, University of Edinburgh<br />Keeper, [[Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh]] (1786–1819)<br />[[King's Botanist in Scotland]] (1786-)<br />Physician, [[Edinburgh Royal Infirmary]] (1791)
| alma_mater        = [[University of Edinburgh]]
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| known_for         = isolation of [[nitrogen]]
| author_abbrev_bot = Rutherf.
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| alt               = Engraved portrait of Rutherford 
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'''Daniel Rutherford''' {{Post-nominals|post-noms=[[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|FRSE]] [[Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|FRCPE]] [[Fellow of the Linnean Society of London|FLS]] [[Society of Antiquaries of Scotland|FSA(Scot)]]}} (3 November 1749 – 15 November 1819) was a Scottish physician, chemist and botanist who is known for the isolation of [[nitrogen]] in 1772.