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Jan Ingenhousz

1730 - 1799

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Jan Ingenhousz FRS (8 December 1730 – 7 September 1799) was a Dutch-British physiologist, biologist and chemist. He is best known for discovering photosynthesis by showing that light is essential to the process by which green plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. He also discovered that plants, like animals, have cellular respiration. In his lifetime he was known for successfully inoculating the members of the Habsburg family in Vienna against smallpox in 1768 and subsequently being the private counsellor and personal physician to the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Ingenhousz is the 336th most popular physicist (down from 315th in 2019), the 202nd most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 205th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Dutch Physicist.

Jan Ingenhousz was a Dutch physician and physiologist who discovered that plants produce oxygen during photosynthesis.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jan Ingenhousz ranks 336 out of 851. Before him are Giovanni Battista Venturi, Moshé Feldenkrais, Louis Paul Cailletet, Leopold Infeld, Giovanni Battista Amici, and Carl Wieman. After him are John B. Goodenough, Fritjof Capra, Robert B. Laughlin, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Bruno Pontecorvo, and Stephen Hales.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Jan Ingenhousz ranks 6. Before him are Alexander Suvorov, Charles Messier, Henry Clinton, Johann Georg Hamann, and Étienne Bézout. After him are Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Pieter Boddaert, Josiah Wedgwood, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, and Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1799, Jan Ingenhousz ranks 17. Before him are Victoire of France, Heshen, Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Jean-François Marmontel, and Chevalier de Saint-Georges. After him are Jean-Charles de Borda, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Marcus Elieser Bloch, and Claude Balbastre.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan Ingenhousz ranks 202 out of 1,646. Before him are Peter Stuyvesant (1612), Ruud van Nistelrooy (1976), Willem Mengelberg (1871), Jan Lievens (1607), Antonis Mor (1519), and Willem van Aelst (1627). After him are Dirck van Baburen (1595), Johannes Heesters (1903), Abraham Kuyper (1837), Peter Bosz (1963), William I, Count of Hainaut (1287), and Erik ten Hag (1970).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Jan Ingenhousz ranks 13. Before him are Peter Debye (1884), Simon van der Meer (1925), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), Frits Zernike (1888), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), and Gerard 't Hooft (1946). After him are Hans Kramers (1894), Samuel Goudsmit (1902), Hendrik Casimir (1909), Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), and Balthasar van der Pol (1889).

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