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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Ingenhousz has received more than 576,741 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Ingenhousz is the 314th most popular physicist (down from 279th in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 153rd 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 314 out of 851. Before him are Ratko Janev, Paul-Jacques Curie, Moshé Feldenkrais, James Jeans, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, and John Robert Schrieffer. After him are Ludwig Prandtl, Fritjof Capra, Robert B. Laughlin, Ernst Chladni, William Whewell, and John C. Mather.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Jan Ingenhousz ranks 5. Before him are Alexander Suvorov, Charles Messier, Johann Georg Hamann, and Étienne Bézout. After him are Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Josiah Wedgwood, Antonio Sacchini, James Bruce, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, and Velu Nachiyar. Among people deceased in 1799, Jan Ingenhousz ranks 17. Before him are Victoire of France, Heshen, Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, and Chevalier de Saint-Georges. After him are Jean-Charles de Borda, Jean-François Marmontel, Johann Hedwig, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, and Pierre Pigneau de Behaine.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan Ingenhousz ranks 205 out of 1,646. Before him are Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606), Jan Janszoon (1570), Willem Drees (1886), Gustav Leonhardt (1928), Guido van Rossum (1956), and Philips Wouwerman (1619). After him are William I, Count of Hainaut (1287), Rodolphus Agricola (1443), Johan Jongkind (1819), C. C. Catch (1964), Wim Jansen (1946), and Antonis Mor (1519).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Jan Ingenhousz ranks 13. Before him are Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853), Peter Debye (1884), Frits Zernike (1888), Simon van der Meer (1925), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), and Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931). After him are Hans Kramers (1894), Samuel Goudsmit (1902), Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), Hendrik Casimir (1909), Abraham Pais (1918), and Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876).

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