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Jan Baptist van Helmont was a chemist, physiologist, and physician from Brussels. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry". Van Helmont is remembered today largely for his 5-year willow tree experiment, his introduction of the word "gas" into the vocabulary of science, and his ideas on sp…
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science · Chemist and physician (1580–1644) · chemist · physicist · physician writer · philosopher · physiologist · physician · scientist · writer · alchemist · also Jan Baptist van Helmont, Jan Baptista van Helmont, Johann Baptist van Helmont, Jean Baptist van Helmont, Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Helmont
Born 1 January 1577 · Died 30 December 1644 · Q294169
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Was honoured by Belgian botanist Alfred Cogniaux (1841–1916), who named a genus of flowering plants from South America, Helmontia (from the Cucurbitaceae family)
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Was honoured by Belgian botanist Alfred Cogniaux (1841–1916), who named a genus of flowering plants from South America, Helmontia (from the Cucurbitaceae family)
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Died 1644-12-30.
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Born 1577-01-01.
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