Hermann Boerhaave
1668–1738
Dutch physician, botanist, and chemist. Lecturer in medicine at the University of Leiden from 1701; professor of botany and medicine, 1709–29; professor of chemistry, 1718–29.
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.
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