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Liebig Museum

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Liebig Museum
Liebig Museum
Liebig Museum
Liebig Museum
Liebig Museum
Liebig Museum
Liebig Museum
Liebig Museum
Liebig Museum
Liebig Museum
Liebig Museum
Liebig Museum
Liebig Museum
Liebig Museum
Liebig Museum
Phone:
+49 641 76392

Hours:
Sunday10am - 4pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 4pm
Wednesday10am - 4pm
Thursday10am - 4pm
Friday10am - 4pm
Saturday10am - 4pm


Justus Freiherr von Liebig was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and was considered the founder 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 one of the greatest chemistry teachers of all time. 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 formulation 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. He also developed a manufacturing process for beef extracts, 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.
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