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Justus von Liebig
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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.
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Defining ContributionMineral nutrition theory of plants and the law of the minimum 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Founder of agricultural chemistry, the root of modern soil science
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