Jean-Baptiste Van Mons
Jean-Baptiste Van Mons (11 November 1765 Brussels — 6 September 1842 Leuven) was a Belgian physicist, chemist, botanist, horticulturist and pomologist, and professor of chemistry and agronomy at Louvain (1817-1830). Van Mons carried out the first recorded selective breeding of the European Pear through cycles of seed propagation.
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| Born | Jean-Baptiste Van Mons 11 November 1765 Brussels, Belgium |
| Died | 6 September 1842 (aged 76) Leuven, Belgium |
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