Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert (1817 to 1901) was an English chemist noted for a long career spent improving the methods of practical agriculture. Alongside John Bennet Lawes, he conducted experiments at Rothamsted for forty years, and one of their key findings was that cereal crops take up nitrogen from the soil, contrary to the view held by Justus von Liebig that plants obtained nitrogen only from the air; their work made Rothamsted a leading center of agricultural research, and Gilbert became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1860.
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Defining ContributionConducted agricultural chemistry experiments with John Bennet Lawes at Rothamsted for forty years, establishing that cereal crops take up nitrogen from the soil rather than solely from the air, and helped make Rothamsted a leading center of agricultural research. 1 In the Other Atlases
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Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert was an English chemist, noteworthy for his long career spent improving the methods of practical agriculture.
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Along with J.B. Lawes, he conducted experiments at Rothamstead for forty years.
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