Jan Ingenhousz FRS (8 December 1730 – 7 September 1799) was a Dutch-British physiologist, biologist and chemist. He is best known for discovering photosynthesis...
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Thermal conductivity and resistivity (section Jan Ingenhousz and the thermal conductivity of different metals)
6324. ISSN 2575-6524. S2CID 104357320. Ingenhousz, Jan (1998) [1780]. "To Benjamin Franklin from Jan Ingenhousz, 5 December 1780". In Oberg, Barbara B...
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commercial product. In a description of the use of the eudiometer by Jan Ingenhousz to show photosynthesis, a biographer observed, "The history of the use...
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carbon into biomass per year. Photosynthesis was discovered in 1779 by Jan Ingenhousz. He showed that plants need light, not just air, soil, and water. Photosynthesis...
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ultraviolet light. The process of photosynthesis was discovered by Jan Ingenhousz, a Dutch-born British physician and scientist, first publishing about...
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824–829. 1701. doi:10.1098/rstl.1700.0082. Ingenhousz, Jan (1998) [1780]. "To Benjamin Franklin from Jan Ingenhousz, 5 December 1780". In Oberg, Barbara B...
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salubrity of the air. The eudiometer with the nitrous air test was the way Jan Ingenhousz verified that the bubbles given off under water by plant leaves exposed...
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our atmosphere." Priestley's experiments were further evaluated by Jan Ingenhousz, a Dutch physician, who then showed that the "restoration" of air only...
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where he reports that Jan Ingenhousz saw ethylene synthesized in the same way by a Mr. Enée in Amsterdam in 1777 and that Ingenhousz subsequently produced...
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driving consideration. In a 1774 letter to Dutch-born British scientist Jan Ingenhousz, Benjamin Franklin relates an experiment by another British scientist...
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August 31 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720) September 7 Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist, biologist, and chemist (b. 1730) Louis...
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describes and explains the Brownian movement by a wrong example". While Jan Ingenhousz described the irregular motion of coal dust particles on the surface...
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at Leipzig, substituted a leather cushion for the hand. During 1746, Jan Ingenhousz invented electric machines made of plate glass. Experiments with the...
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he welcomed visitors including Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Priestley, Jan Ingenhousz, and Henry Cavendish (the discoverer of hydrogen). Michell wrote to...
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Doodle. On December 8, 2017, Google celebrated the 287th birthday of Jan Ingenhousz with a Doodle. On January 29, 2018, Google celebrated Taiwanese singer...
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innovation may have been influenced by the work of Dutch scientist Jan Ingenhousz, who studied the role of light in photosynthesis. However, while his...
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deprecates the phlogiston theory and proposes a caloric theory 1784 – Jan Ingenhousz describes Brownian motion of charcoal particles on water 1791 – Pierre...
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attracted Benjamin Franklin (founding father of the USA), Joseph Priestley, Jan Ingenhousz, John Smeaton and others to a scientific meeting and overnight stay...
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researcher Jan Ingenhousz demonstrated that the bubbles of gas observed by Bonnet on submerged leaves consisted of this same gas. Ingenhousz also published...
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oxygen in 1774; there is a plaque in the town centre commemorating this. Jan Ingenhousz repeated Joseph Priestley's experiments and found it was sunlight which...
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August 25 – John Arnold, English watchmaker (born 1736) September 7 – Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physiologist (born 1730) October 6 – William Withering, English...
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1724 – Claude Balbastre, French organist and composer (d. 1799) 1730 – Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist, and botanist (d. 1799) 1731 – František...
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discovery of oxygen (as now called) and its production by plants. Later, Jan Ingenhousz (1730–1799) observed that only in sunlight do the green parts of plants...
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Christiaan), scientific instrument maker, technological chronicler Jan Ingenhousz (1730–1799), physiologist, botanist and physicist. Zacharias Janssen...
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demonstrated the activity of a photosynthetic reaction center. In 1779, Jan Ingenhousz carried out more than 500 experiments spread out over 4 months in an...
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the work begun by his predecessors, including Jan Baptist van Helmont, Joseph Priestley, Jan Ingenhousz, and Jean Senebier. For the several decades following...
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discovery that would eventually lead to the discovery of photosynthesis by Jan Ingenhousz. Priestley also developed a "nitrous air test" to determine the "goodness...
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Huygens (1955) Philips Huygens, brother of Christiaan Huygens (1955) Jan Ingenhousz, physician & botanist (1941) Princess Irene of the Netherlands, princess...
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astronomer from Gloucestershire, who discovered the aberration of light. Jan Ingenhousz, the Dutch biologist, discovered photosynthesis in 1779 at Bowood House...
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invented by Samuel Miller 1779: Photosynthesis was first discovered by Jan Ingenhousz 1781: William Herschel announces discovery of Uranus 1784: Bifocals...
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