Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist and physician (died 1644)

Jan Baptist van Helmont

Chemist and physician (1580–1644)

Jan Baptist van Helmont was a chemist, physiologist, and physician from Brussels. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry". Van Helmont is remembered today largely for…