Google Doodle celebrates 287th birthday of Jan Ingenhaus
By: Pavel Chuikin | 08.12.2017, 09:10
Today's Google doodle celebrates the 287th anniversary of the birth of Jan Ingenhaus, a Dutch and English chemist, physicist and biologist.
Brownian motion and photosynthesis
Jan Ingenhaus is best known as the pioneer in the process of photosynthesis . At one time, he proved that with the help of light, green plants turn carbon dioxide into oxygen. In addition, Ingenhaus is considered the pioneer of the Brownian movement and was the first to notice the presence of cellular respiration in plants.