Skip to main content Skip to Search Box
Definition: Liebig, Baron Justus von from Philip's Encyclopedia

German chemist. He was the first to realize that animals use oxygen to get energy from food. Liebig also showed that plants derive their minerals from the soil, and introduced synthetic fertilizers.

Liebig, Justus (1803-1873)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : Germany Subject : biography, chemistry German organic chemist, one of the greatest influences on 19th-century chemistry. Through his researches and those of his ex-students, he had a profound influence on the science for nearly a hundred years. To the schoolchild of today he is best known for the piece of chemical apparatus that he made popular and which still bears his name (the Liebig condenser). A better measure of his status is the fact that his students, assistants and co-workers included such famous chemists as Edward Frankland, Joseph Gay-Lussac , August von Hofmann , Friedrich Kekulé von Stradonitz , Friedrich Wöhler , and Charles Wurtz . Liebig was born in Darmstadt, Hesse, on 12 May 1803. His father sold drugs, dyes, pigments, and other chemicals and carried out his own chemical experiments, to which Liebig was introduced as a boy. When he was 15 years old he was apprenticed to an apothecary and first went to university to study under Karl Kastner at Bonn (where…
54 results

Full text Article Liebig, Justus (1803-1873)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : Germany Subject : biography, chemistry German organic chemist, one of the greatest influences on 19th-century chemistry. Through his researches and those of his ex-students, he had a profound influence on the science for nearly a hundred years. To the schoolchild of today he is best known…
| 794 words
Key concepts:
| 56 words
Key concepts:

Full text Article Liebig, Justus von (1803–1873).

From Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary
| 82 words
Key concepts:

Full text Article Justus Liebig (1803–1873)

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
| 28 words
Key concepts:
Before Justus Liebig's time, chemistry was mainly theoretical and of interest only to scientists. Liebig helped to make chemistry useful in people's daily lives. His work with carbon compounds laid the foundations for modern organic chemistry. Justus Liebig was born in Darmstadt, Germany, on May 12, …
| 345 words
(born May 12, 1803, Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt—died April 18, 1873, Munich, Bavaria) German chemist. He made many important contributions to the early systematization of organic chemistry and to biochemistry, chemical education, and agricultural chemistry. He was the first to demonstrate the…
| 175 words
Key concepts:

Full text Article Liebig, Justus Baron von

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(yʊs'tʊs bärôn' fӘn lē'bĭkh), 1803–73, German chemist. As professor at Giessen (1824–52), he was among the first to establish a chemical teaching laboratory; there some of the leading chemists of the 19th cent. were trained. He was professor at Munich from 1852 to 1873. Liebig improved methods of…
| 145 words
Key concepts:

Full text Article Liebig

From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary Full text Article Biographical Names
| 15 words
Key concepts:

Full text Article 12 May 1803

From The Hutchinson Chronology of World History Full text Article 1803
| 33 words
Key concepts:

Full text Article Top 101 Scientists

From People You Should Know
Top 101 Scientists: Introduction LUIS W. ALVAREZ (b. 1911–d. 1988) ARCHIMEDES (b. 287–d. 212 BCE) ARISTOTLE (b. 384–d. 322 BCE) AVICENNA (b. 980–d. 1037) DAVID BALTIMORE (b. 1938–) DANIEL BERNOULLI (b. 1700–d. 1782) …
| 624 words
Mind Map

Stack overflow
More Library Resources