Helmont

American  

[hel-mont, hel-mawnt] / ˈhɛl mɒnt, ˈhɛl mɔnt /

noun

1. Jan Baptista van 1579–1644, Flemish chemist and physician.

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Helmont British  

/ ˈhɛlmɔnt /

noun

1. Jean Baptiste van (ʒɑ̃ batist vɑn). 1577–1644, Flemish chemist and physician. He was the first to distinguish gases and claimed to have coined the word gas

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Example Sentences

When the polymath returned to Cambridge in 1667, he began to study the work of Van Helmont.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2020

These papers, including Newton’s notes on Van Helmont, were sold in 1936 to private collectors, among them John Maynard Keynes.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2020

The Belgian chemist Johannes Baptista van Helmont, who coined the word in the 1640s, thought that gas was a spirit, perhaps a demon.

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2011

The younger Van Helmont had been her scientific mentor and personal physician in the 1670s, and lived with her on her Warwickshire estate.

From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2010

By 1654 Charleton, whom we earlier met translating van Helmont, had become one of the insolent sceptics.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton