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All Agricultural Chemists and Agrochemical Scientists

Chemists who turned the methods of chemistry to farming, soils, fertilizers, feeds and food, from the nineteenth century founders of agricultural chemistry to the industrial chemists whose syntheses changed fertilizer supply. A person belongs here when the cited article describes them as a chemist or agricultural chemist whose work bears on agriculture, such as plant nutrition, fertilizer making, dairy testing or the study of soils and crops.

All Agricultural Chemists and Agrochemical Scientists
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Evangelina Villegas (Wikipedia)
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was a Mexican cereal biochemist whose work with maize led to the development of quality protein maize (QPM).
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Doris Gnauck White (Wikipedia)
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researcher of the biochemical and biophysical foundations of agriculture
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Wendell L. Roelofs (Wikipedia)
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Developed insect sex attractants for pest control
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Justus von Liebig (Wikipedia)
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Justus Freiherr von Liebig (12 May 1803-18 April 1873) was a German scientist who made major contributions to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of chemistry, as well as to agricultural and biological chemistry; he is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry.
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Fritz Haber (Wikipedia)
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Fritz Jakob Haber (German: [ˈfʁɪt͡s ˈhaːbɐ] ; 9 December 1868-29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
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Carl Bosch (Wikipedia)
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Carl Bosch (German pronunciation: [kaʁl ˈbɔʃ] ; 27 August 1874-26 April 1940) was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
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Joseph Henry Gilbert (Wikipedia)
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Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert (1 August 1817-23 December 1901) was an English chemist, noteworthy for his long career spent improving the methods of practical agriculture.
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Wilbur Olin Atwater (Wikipedia)
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Wilbur Olin Atwater (May 3, 1844, September 22, 1907) was an American chemist known for his studies of human nutrition and metabolism, and is considered the father of modern nutrition research and education.
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Stephen Moulton Babcock (Wikipedia)
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Stephen Moulton Babcock (22 October 1843-2 July 1931) was an American agricultural chemist.
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Wikipedia: Charles Anthony Goessmann
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Charles Anthony Goessmann (13 June 1827-1 September 1910), known in his native German as Karl Anton Gößmann, was a Massachusetts agricultural and food chemist.
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Margarete von Wrangell - Wikipedia
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Margarethe Mathilde von Wrangell, after 1928 Princess Andronikow, née Baroness von Wrangell (7 January 1877-21 March 1932) was a Baltic German agricultural chemist and the first female full professor at a German university.
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Wikipedia: Harry Snyder (scientist)
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Harry Snyder (1867-1927) was an American agricultural scientist, a specialist in agricultural chemistry.
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Edward Hopkins Jenkins - Wikipedia
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Edward Hopkins Jenkins (May 31, 1850, November 6, 1931) was an American agricultural chemist who served as director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station from 1900 to 1923.
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Harold Tempany (Wikipedia)
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Sir Harold Augustin Tempany CBE CMG (23 July 1881-2 July 1955) was a British agricultural chemist who served for forty-three years in the Colonial Agricultural Service.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson MacIvor (Wikipedia)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson MacIvor (c. 1852-1 April 1917) was a United Kingdom agricultural chemist, active in Australia, New Zealand and Scotland.
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Shang Fa Yang (Wikipedia)
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Shang Fa Yang (Chinese: 楊祥發; pinyin: Yáng Xiángfā; November 10, 1932, February 12, 2007) was a Taiwanese-American biochemist and botanist specializing in agricultural chemistry.
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John A. Pickett (Wikipedia)
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John Anthony Pickett (born 21 April 1945) is a British chemist who is noted for his work on insect pheromones.
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John Bennet Lawes (Wikipedia)
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Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet, FRS (28 December 1814-31 August 1900) was an English entrepreneur and agricultural scientist. He founded an experimental farm at his home at Rothamsted Manor that eventually became Rothamsted Research, where he developed a superphosphate that would mark the beginnings of the chemical fertilizer industry
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