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Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn
Joseph Black became the professor of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh in 1766. This appointment was made possible after his former teacher, William Cullen, moved to a different chair of medicine to create the vacancy.1