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Justus Freiherr von Liebig 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. As a professor at the University of Giessen, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is regarded as…
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science · German chemist (1803–1873) · chemist · inventor · university teacher · agronomist · writer · also Justus von Liebig, Justus Freiherr von Liebig, Baron von Liebig, Justus, Baron von Liebig, Liebig
Born 12 May 1803 · Died 18 April 1873 · Q16571
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The production of all organic substances no longer belongs just to living organisms. It must be seen as not only probable, but as certain, that we shall be able to produce them in our laboratories. Sugar, salicin, and morphine will be artificially produced. Of course, we do not yet know how to do this, because we do not yet know the precursors from which these compounds arise, but we shall come to know them.
Won Albert Medal (1869).
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“The production of all organic substances no longer belongs just to living organisms. It must be seen as not only probable, but as certain, that we shall be able to produce them in our laboratories. Sugar, salicin, and morphine will be artificially produced. Of course, we do not yet know how to do this, because we do not yet know the precursors from which these compounds arise, but we shall come to know them.”
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The "Sprengel-Liebig Medal" was awarded to Dr
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The third General Assembly of the International Scientific Centre of Fertilizers (CIEC), founded in 1932, was organized in Darmstadt to honor Justus von Liebig on the 150th anniversary of his birth
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The West German post office issued a stamp in his honor
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After the end of World War II, the University of Giessen was officially renamed after him, "Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen"
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But the note remained in circulation until the issue of the Deutsche Mark on 21 June 1948
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The Verein deutscher Chemiker (Association of German Chemists) also had a medal struck using Brehmer's portrait
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Died 1873-04-18.
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And is buried in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich
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The Versammlung deutscher Land- und Forstwirte (Assembly of German Farmers and Foresters) was first awarded a Liebig Gold Medal, given to Theodor Reuning
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Won Albert Medal (1869).
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Liebig was awarded the Albert Medal by the Royal Society of Arts, "for his numerous valuable researches and writings, which have contributed most importantly to the development of food-economy and agriculture, to the adv
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The German physiologist Edward Kemmerich ran an experiment involving feeding the extract to dogs, every one of which died
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Liebig partnered with Belgian engineer George Christian Giebert, and was named scientific director of Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, located in Fray Bentos in Uruguay
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Published the book "Es ist ja die Spitze meines lebens" in which he revised his early perceptions, now appreciating soil life and in particular the biological nitrogen fixation
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To see if he could develop a silvering technique capable of producing high-quality optical mirrors for use in reflecting telescopes
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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1853).
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After asking Hermann Kopp to take over management of the Annalen der Chemie, Liebig accepted an appointment from King Maximilian II of Bavaria to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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Liebig investigated spontaneous human combustion, dismissing the simplistic explanations based on ethanol due to alcoholism
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Received the French Légion d'honneur, presented by chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas, the French trade minister
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Botanist Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus Endlicher (1804–1849) published a genus of flowering plants from Malesia, belonging to the family Gesneriaceae, as Liebigia in his honour
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Won Copley Medal (1840).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1840).
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Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1839).
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Obtained government funds to build a lecture theatre and two separate laboratories designed by architect Paul Hofmann
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Became a correspondent of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands; when that became the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1851, he joined as a foreign member
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Reported that aldehydes reduce silver salts to metallic silver
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Liebig convinced chancellor Justin von Linde to include the institute within the university
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Liebig and Friedrich Wöhler published an investigation of the oil of bitter almonds
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In Frankfurt, after independently reporting on the preparation of two substances, cyanic acid and fulminic acid, that apparently had the same composition, but very different characteristics
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Studied at University of Bonn (1819).
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Born 1803-05-12.
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