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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...
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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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