About Andrew Plummer
Lived 1697 – 1756 (aged 58–59). Andrew Plummer was a chemist, university teacher and physicist.
Andrew Plummer FRCP (1697–1756) was a Scottish physician and chemist. He was professor of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from 1726 to 1755. He developed ideas on the attractive and repulsive forces involved in chemical affinity, which later had influence on his successors William Cullen and Joseph Black. He compounded "Plummer's pills", a mixture of calomel and antimony sulfide with guaiacum; the pills were originally compounded to treat psoriasis but were used for more than a century as an antisyphilitic.
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Who was Andrew Plummer?
British chemist
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Andrew Plummer was born in 1697.
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Andrew Plummer died on 16 April 1756 in Edinburgh.
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Andrew Plummer was a chemist, university teacher and physicist.
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Andrew Plummer's recorded nationality: Scottish people.
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