Jan Baptist van Helmont
1580 – 1644 · Belgium · Chemistry, Biology
Coined 'gas' and ran the first quantitative plant-growth experiment.
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- Antoine Lavoisier
1743 – 1794 · Chemistry
Van Helmont's gas experiments set the mass questions Lavoisier answered with the balance.
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