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Nicolás Joseph Jacquin

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Chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands (1727-1817)

ScientistsLived 1727 to 1817 · aged 90
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Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany. He travelled to the West Indies as part of an Austrian expedition and collected a large number of botanical specimens and described many species.

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Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany. He travelled to the West Indies as part of an Austrian expedition and collected a large number of botanical specimens and described many species. He served as the first professor of chemistry in the mining academy at Schemnitz in Austria and later worked at the University of Vienna. He was the father of the botanist Joseph Franz von Jacquin.

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Lived 1727 to 1817 · aged 90
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