biography
pronunciation:
[eenggenhows]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1730–99)
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| biography:
| Physician and plant physiologist, born in Breda, S Netherlands. He practised as a doctor in England, then became physician to Empress Maria Theresa. He improved methods of generating static electricity (1766), and was the first to make quantitative measurements of heat conduction in metals. He is best known as the discoverer of photosynthesis (1779). |
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