Daniel Rutherford
Daniel Rutherford (3 November 1749 – 15 December 1819) was a Scottish physician, chemist and botanist who is most famous for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772.
John Rutherfurd
John Rutherfurd was born on September 20, 1760 in New York City to Walter Rutherfurd (d. 1804) and Mary Alexander, daughter of James Alexander (1691–1756) and Mary Spratt Provoost (1693–1760). His father Walter, a veteran of the British Army, was a hostage of the Patriots during the Revolutionary War while John was a teenager. Rutherfurd attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and studied law.