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  • Among Liebig's new passions were agricultural chemistry and physiology — interests that influenced a number of his American students, who founded agricultural experimental stations and agricultural education in the United States.

    Von Liebig, Justus 2009

  • Liebig's five-bulbed apparatus, seen lying on the table in the portrait photograph.

    Von Liebig, Justus 2009

  • Over the years it became the insignia of Liebig's students.

    Von Liebig, Justus 2009

  • It is evidence in favor of this view that in 1843, Müller published Helmholtz's first essay, “On the Nature of Fermentation and Putrefaction,” written in support of Justus von Liebig's anti-vitalist arguments against spontaneous generation, in his own journal, Müller's Archiv.

    Hermann von Helmholtz Patton, Lydia 2008

  • He used the time to work in the lab in Berlin, and continued to focus on the consequences of Weber's and Liebig's attacks on vitalism.

    Hermann von Helmholtz Patton, Lydia 2008

  • Presumably this is the main reason why, in the struggle for survival, Liebig's much less perfect but explicit definition (although giving rise to a false opinion) had provisionally been victorious.

    Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture 1966

  • Conversely, in view of these facts, I need waste no words in stating that individual scientists who were apparently of the opinion that all that is required to become a historian of chemistry is an acquaintance with old chemical books and texts refused to recognize in the remoulded concept of catalysis a repetition of Berzelius 'or Liebig's definition.

    Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture 1966

  • In reply to Liebig's hypothesis that a decomposing substance could induce the decomposition of other substances in contact with it, and after he had shown the examples cited by Liebig to be invalid, he continues: We thus obtain a fictitious explanation by which we believe to have understood that which we cannot yet understand, and whereby the attention is diverted away from the matter to be explained which then remains all the longer unelucidated.

    Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture 1966

  • Since the invention of Liebig's potassium apparatus and the calcium chloride tube, many variations have been made in the course of nearly a century to the usual absorption apparatus for elemental analysis.

    Fritz Pregl - Nobel Lecture 1966

  • Although neither Berzelius 'good definition nor Liebig's bad definition promoted in any way the development of this scientifically interesting and technically highly important field, the new definition had that effect at once.

    Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture 1966

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