Joseph Black

Scottish physicist and chemist (1728–1799)

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Joseph Black was a Scottish scientist of the 18th century who made important discoveries in chemistry and physics, including groundbreaking work on heat and gases. His findings laid the foundation for modern chemistry and thermodynamics, influencing how scientists understood the behavior of matter and energy.

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Works: 39

Top works

Merchant of Venice
Scientists Of The Industrial Revolution
Letters from Ethiopia
The Victorian Era -- Second Edition
Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 2

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Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1968-09
Active to: 2025-07-05

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Discography

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Listeners: 36,528
Total plays: 255,809

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5 total works indexed

You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
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SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
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Naturalistic inquiry
· 1985 · cited 34,765x
When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM
· 2019 · cited 21,483x
The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities
· 1973 · cited 19,801x

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Quotes

“Most Honrd SirYour most affectionate letter of the 8th Aprill shews you in such a light as must warm the heart of a son with the highest degree of gratitude and affection.”
“Others in the pursuits after happiness or pleasure must commonly seek those sources of it which they cannot enjoy without some inconvenience to the rest of their fellow creatures; hence they have their imaginary happiness so much soured by Envy, Jealousy, or self-disapprobation that they find themselves dissappointed.”
“Your happiness on the contrary is quite secure because you place it entirely in making others happy and doing those things to the utmost of your power which you can afterwards reflect upon with satisfaction. I must own your letter had that effect upon me that it made me apply to my work with double eagerness and alacrity with the hopes of being some time what you are at present.”
“I am not yet installed into the order of the great wig, but have gone through all the examinations, & nothing is wanting but the ceremony, that has been put off by the Processors to wait for some others that are to be promoted along with me 6 days hence.”
“In my last letter to you I proposed to go immediately to London to spend some time in the Hospitals there. I am now advised to put that off and remain here yet a while longer; & I must own the reasons for it are very strong quite unanswerable by me unless you disapprove of them. The following are the chief of them.”
“I have now studied the Theory of medicine & have likewise been taught every thing upon the Practice which can be learned in a College. I have also seen some real Practice & have even practised a little myself. But all this is not enough.”

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

The chemistry buildings at both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow are named after Black.

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