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Black, Joseph

1728-1799

Joseph Black was born in Bordeaux. His mother was Scottish and his father was an Irish wine merchant. He attended university at both Glasgow and Edinburgh from the age of sixteen. He graduated as a Doctor of Medicine and it was in his thesis that he first described what would later be known as carbon dioxide. His academic career included the posts of Professor of Anatomy and Chemistry at Glasgow University as well as Medicine and Chemistry at Edinburgh. His discovery of specific and latent heat were greatly to influence his pupil, James Watt.

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