The Dutch physician, chemist, and engineer Jan Ingenhousz (1730-1799) is noted for his demonstration of the process of photosynthesis in plants. Jan Ingenhousz was born on Dec. 8, 1730, in Breda. He studied medicine at the University of Louvain and...

While working at a London hospital, Ingen Housz became an expert in the technique of preventing smallpox by inoculation. Treatment at that time used a hazardous live virus instead of today's safer vaccine. In 1768, he traveled to Vienna, Austria, to...

Jan Ingenhousz. Dutch Physician 1730-1799 Jan Ingenhousz made major contributions to plant physiology as well as human medicine. He was born in the Netherlands, received a medical degree in 1753, and went on to further study in Leiden, Paris,...

1730-1799 Dutch Plant Physiologist and Physician Jan Ingenhousz is best known for his discovery of photosynthesis, the process by which green plants absorb carbon dioxide in the presence of sunlight and release oxygen. Through an ingenious series of...

Jan Ingenhousz or Ingen-Housz (December 8, 1730, Breda - September 7, 1799) was Dutch physiologist, botanist and physicist. He is best remembered for showing that light is essential to plant respiration, a vital step in the discovery of photosynthesis....