For much of the 19th century, Liebig was a giant of the scientific establishment, with fingers in many pies. He worked out the core nutritional needs of plants and then went on to develop the ...

He was Justus Liebig, “von” Liebig after the barony ... By the 1870s, Liebig had been made a baron and was visited by royalty and artists. George Eliot even looked in. He was also dying ...

W hen famed German Chemist Baron Justus von Liebig made the first modern mirror 105 years ago, he poured his new silvering solution from a laboratory beaker on a pane of glass, gave humanity the ...

Were it not for Baron Justus von Liebig, Christmas might look and taste quite different. Yet despite his contribution to everything from the stock cubes used in your gravy to the mirrors in your ...