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Jean Baptiste van Helmont

(Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644)

Portrait believed to be the Dutch Chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580-1644) (not Robert Hooke)
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Jan Baptist van Helmont ( HEL-mont, Dutch: [ˈjɑm bɑpˈtɪst fɑn ˈɦɛlmɔnt]; 12 January 1580 – 30 December 1644) 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" (from the Greek word chaos) into the vocabulary of science, and his ideas on spontaneous generation. (From Wikipedia)

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