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

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

From The Guardian

Two unpublished pages of Newton’s notes on Jan Baptist van Helmont’s 1667 book on plague, De Peste, are to be auctioned online by Bonham’s this week.

From The Guardian

Van Helmont, a renowned physician, had been a practising doctor in Antwerp when the city was hit by plague in 1605.

From The Guardian

After an investigation, Prince George’s police arrested Beatrice Manning, 43, who they said ran a day-care center out of her home on Helmont Place in Oxon Hill.

From Washington Post