biography
pronunciation:
[senebyay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1742–1809)
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| biography:
| Botanist and pastor, born in Geneva, SW Switzerland. He studied theology, and was ordained in 1765. He was pastor of a church at Chancy, Switzerland (1769), then city librarian of Geneva from 1773. He studied botany, and in 1782 first demonstrated the basic principle of photosynthesis, which he published in Physiologie végétale (1800). He also wrote an important literary work on Geneva (1786). |
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