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Justus Freiherr von Liebig
Born
(1803-05-12)12 May 1803
Darmstadt, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt
Died
20 April 1873(1873-04-20) (aged 69)
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Alma mater
University of Bonn
University of Erlangen
Known for
See list
Agricultural chemistry
Analytical chemistry
Biochemistry
Organic chemistry
Benzilic acid rearrangement
Barking dog reaction
Combustion analysis
Fermentation theory
Law of the Minimum
Liebig condenser
Liebig process
Liebig's theory of acids
Kaliapparat
Meat extract
Organocatalysis
Plant nutrition
Silvering
Yeast extract
Awards
Albert Medal (1869)
Scientific career
Fields
Chemistry
Institutions
University of Giessen
University of Munich
Doctoral advisor
Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner
Doctoral students
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Carl Schmidt
Nikolay Zinin
Victor Regnault
Carl von Voit
Hermann von Fehling
Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
August von Hofmann
Lyon Playfair
Emil Erlenmeyer
Heinrich Ritthausen
Moritz Traube
Adolph Strecker
Wilhelm Henneberg
Other notable students
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August Kekulé
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet
Augustus Voelcker[1]
Julius Eugen Schlossberger
Carl Vogt
Max Joseph von Pettenkofer
Justus Freiherr von Liebig[2] (12 May 1803 – 18 April 1873)[3] was a German scientist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry.[4] As a professor at the University of Giessen, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is regarded as one of the greatest chemistry teachers of all time.[5] He has been described as the "father of the fertilizer industry" for his emphasis on nitrogen and trace minerals as essential plant nutrients, and his popularization of the law of the minimum, which described how plant growth relied on the scarcest nutrient resource, rather than the total amount of resources available.[6] He also developed a manufacturing process for beef extracts,[7] and with his consent a company, called Liebig Extract of Meat Company, was founded to exploit the concept; it later introduced the Oxo brand beef bouillon cube. He popularized an earlier invention for condensing vapors, which came to be known as the Liebig condenser.[8]
^Kumar, Prakash (2012). Indigo plantations and science in colonial India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-107-02325-3. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
^German pronunciation:[ˈjʊstʊsfɔnˈliːbɪç]. Liebig in southern Germany: [ˈliːbɪk].
^Priesner, Claus (1985), "Liebig, Justus Freiherr von", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 14, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 497–501; (full text online)
^Royal Society of London (1 January 1875). "Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 24: xxvii–xxxvii. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
^(UNIDO), International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (1998). Fertilizer manual (3rd ed.). Boston: Kluwer Academic. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-7923-5011-8. Retrieved 6 November 2014.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Judel, Günther Klaus (2003). Justus Liebig, Georg Giebert und der Fleischextrakt(PDF) (in German). University of Giessen.
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Justus Freiherr vonLiebig (12 May 1803 – 18 April 1873) was a German scientist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry,...
University of Giessen, official name JustusLiebig University Giessen (German: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university...
foods. Meat extract was invented by Baron JustusvonLiebig, a German 19th-century organic chemist. Liebig specialised in chemistry and the classification...
established their structural relationship to ammonia. After studying under JustusvonLiebig at the University of Giessen, Hofmann became the first director of...
with it. Mayer also promote new regimes of crop rotation. Chemist JustusvonLiebig (1803–1873) contributed greatly to the advancement in the understanding...
food spread based on yeast extract, invented by the German scientist JustusvonLiebig. It is made from by-products of beer brewing (lees) and is produced...
atmosphere. This type of condenser is named after the German chemist JustusvonLiebig, even though he only perfected and popularized it. The earliest water-cooled...
to benzoin. The benzoin condensation was first reported in 1832 by JustusvonLiebig and Friedrich Wöhler during their research on bitter almond oil. The...
notation, 1779–1848 JustusvonLiebig, 1803–1873 Louis Pasteur, 1822–1895 Stanislao Cannizzaro, 1826–1910 Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, 1829–1896...
be made in a few minutes." In the mid-19th century, German chemist JustusvonLiebig developed meat extract, but it was more expensive than bouillon cubes...
extract of the autolysate type was invented in the 19th century by JustusvonLiebig. Yeast cells are heated until they rupture, then the cells' own digestive...
Chemistry in Its Applications to Agriculture and Physiology) by JustusvonLiebig. One of Liebig's advances in agricultural science was the discovery of nitrogen...
of biochemistry. Some might also point to the influential work of JustusvonLiebig from 1842, Animal chemistry, or, Organic chemistry in its applications...
It was published in full form in 1858. Jöns Jacob Berzelius and JustusvonLiebig had proposed the theory that fermentation was caused by decomposition...
order to pursue his doctorate at the University of Giessen under JustusvonLiebig. On his return to England from Germany he acted for a year or so as...
meaning cheese, as it was first discovered in 1846 by German chemist JustusvonLiebig in the protein casein from cheese. It is called tyrosyl when referred...
essential plant constituent or metabolite. This is in accordance with JustusvonLiebig's law of the minimum. The total essential plant nutrients include seventeen...
and pharmacy. Kastner is best known today as the teacher of chemist JustusvonLiebig. List of chemists Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner at the Mathematics...
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