Jan Baptist van Helmont
(1579-1644)
Chemist and physician
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Jan Baptist van Helmont (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 ideas on spontaneous generation, his 5-year willow tree experiment, and his introduction of the word "gas" (from the Greek word chaos) into the vocabulary of science.
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1579 Brussels, Southern Netherlands
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30 December 1644 (aged 65) Vilvoorde (in present-day Flemish Brabant), Southern Netherlands
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