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||1748: Thomas Lowndes dies ... astronomer and academic. No DOB. No pics online.
||1748: Thomas Lowndes dies ... astronomer and academic. No DOB. No pics online.


||1803: Justus von Liebig born ... chemist and academic ... 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. Pic.
File:Justus von Liebig circa 1866.jpg|link=Justus von Liebig (nonfiction)|1803: Chemist and academic [[Justus von Liebig (nonfiction)|Justus von Liebig]] born. Von Liebeg will make pioneering contributions to organic chemistry, especially agricultural and biological chemistry; he will be known as the "Father of the fertilizer industry".


||1806: Georg Adolf Erman born ... physicist. Pic.
||1806: Georg Adolf Erman born ... physicist. Pic.

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