Where did Joseph Black attend university?

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Joseph Black Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn

Joseph Black attended two universities during his academic career. He first enrolled at the University of Glasgow to study art before shifting his focus to medicine under the influence of William Cullen.1

He later moved to the University of Edinburgh, which he chose for the greater prestige of its medical school. It was there that he conducted his significant experiments on magnesium carbonate and was awarded his medical degree in 1754.1