# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adair-crawford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:40:25.494Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adair-crawford"
name: "Adair Crawford"
slug: "adair-crawford"
description: "Adair Crawford FRS FRSE, a chemist and physician, was a pioneer in the development of calorimetric methods for measuring the specific heat capacity of substances and the heat of chemical reactions. In his influential 1779 book \"Experiments and Observations on Animal Heat\", Crawford presented new experiments proving that respiratory gas exchange in animals is a combustion. Crawford also was involved in the discovery of the element strontium."
tagline: "British chemist (1748-1795)"
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birthDate: "1748"
deathDate: "1795-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump