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SENEBIER, JEAN (1742–1809)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 637 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SENEBIER, See also:JEAN (1742–1809) , Swiss pastor and voluminous writer on See also:vegetable See also:physiology, was See also:born at See also:Geneva on the 6th of May 1742. He is remembered on See also:account of his contributions to our knowledge of the See also:influence of See also:light on vegetation. Though See also:Marcello See also:Malpighi and See also:Stephen See also:Hales had shown that a See also:great See also:part of the substance of See also:plants must be obtained from the See also:atmosphere, no progress was made until See also:Charles See also:Bonnet observed on leaves plunged in aerated See also:water bubbles of See also:gas, which See also:Joseph See also:Priestley recognized as See also:oxygen. See also:Jan Ingenhousz proved the simultaneous disappearance of carbonic See also:acid; but it was Senebier who clearly showed that this activity was confined to the See also:green parts, and to these only in sunlight, and first gave a connected view of the whole See also:process of vegetable See also:nutrition in strictly chemical terms. He died at Geneva on the 22nd of See also:July 1809. See See also:Sachs, Geschichte d. Botanik, and Arbeiten, vol. ii.

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