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Birth
-Educated at the university there where his father held the first chair of the Theory and Practise of Medicine.
- He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and would go on to become its secretary and president. -
Conducted experiment and isolated the element Nitrogen
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Appointed Professor of Medicine and Botany at Edinburgh as well as Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden.
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Death
