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Jean Senebier (1742–1809) was a Swiss minister, contemporary, and bitter rival of Ingenhousz. His most important contribution to the developing understanding of photosynthesis was his finding in 1783 of the essential role that carbon dioxide, or “fixed air,” has in the process. Senebier and Ingenhousz engaged in a long‐standing and acrimonious priority dispute. This was not helped by Senebier's poor writing style, such that he would take entire volumes to describe his results in tedious detail, with no summaries provided. For his part, Ingenhousz tried to claim in his 1796 book that he had actually discovered the role of carbon dioxide in his 1779 experiments, although he had clearly denied that it was important in writings in 1784.