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Joseph Black

1728–1799 · United Kingdom · Born in the 1700s

Identified carbon dioxide as “fixed air” and introduced the concepts of latent heat and specific heat.

Fields

General chemistry Physical chemistry

Chemists in the same field

Henry Cavendish (1731)Joseph Priestley (1733)Antoine Lavoisier (1743)John Dalton (1766)Amedeo Avogadro (1776)Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778)