skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Jean Senebier

1742–1809

Swiss plant physiologist. Was the first to understand correctly the nature of gas exchange in photosynthesis. Librarian, Republic of Geneva, 1773.

Source

DSB.

Bibliography

DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.

letter