# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-baptiste-van-mons
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:56:46.216Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-baptiste-van-mons"
name: "Jean-Baptiste Van Mons"
slug: "jean-baptiste-van-mons"
description: "Jean-Baptiste Van Mons was a Belgian physicist, chemist, botanist, horticulturist and pomologist, and professor of chemistry and agronomy at the State University of Leuven (1817-1830). Van Mons carried out the first recorded selective breeding of the European Pear through cycles of seed propagation."
tagline: "Belgian chemist (1765–1842)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Van_Mons_-_Portr%C3%A4t.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1765-11-11"
deathDate: "1842-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump