The chemist who made soil fertility a science. Liebig established that plants feed on mineral nutrients, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, not on humus itself, and his law of the minimum, that growth is capped by the scarcest nutrient, still governs fertilizer practice. Founder of agricultural chemistry and intellectual grandfather of the fertilizer industry. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Founder of agricultural chemistry, the root of modern soil science
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He has been described as the "father of the fertilizer industry" for his emphasis on nitrogen and minerals as essential plant nutrients, and his popularization of the law of the minimum, which states that plant growth is limited by the scarcest nutrient resource, rather than the total amount of resources available.
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