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Justus von Liebig

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Agriculture, General and Allied Sciences

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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Birth Year
1803 1
Death Year
1873 1
Nationality
German 1
Defining Contribution
Mineral nutrition theory of plants and the law of the minimum 1
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Soil Science, Disciplines

Founder of agricultural chemistry, the root of modern soil science

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Germany

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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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    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.
  • In Group: Agricultural Chemists and Agrochemical Scientists, Lead
    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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