Liebig

American  

[lee-bikh] / ˈli bɪx /

noun

1. Justus Baron von 1803–73, German chemist.

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Liebig British  

/ ˈliːbɪç /

noun

1. Justus (ˈjʊstʊs), Baron von Liebig. 1803–73, German chemist, who founded agricultural chemistry. He also contributed to organic chemistry, esp to the concept of radicals, and discovered chloroform

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Liebig Scientific  

/ lē′bĭg /

1. German chemist who was one of the first to investigate organic compounds and to develop techniques for their analysis. Liebig also first described the process now known as photosynthesis, and he made observations about the use of fertilizers that led to many improvements in agricultural practices.

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Example Sentences

This new principle brings together two of biology's foundational growth laws: the Monod equation and Liebig's law of the minimum.

From Science Daily

Hatakeyama compares this to an updated version of Liebig's famous barrel analogy, in which a plant's growth is limited by its shortest stave, representing the scarcest resource.

From Science Daily

She came from a respected academic family, which included scientist Justus von Liebig, known as the founder of organic chemistry.

From BBC

"Thanks to the structural details of the interaction with bulevirtide, we have also gained insights that enable the development of smaller active agents -- so-called peptidomimetics -- with improved pharmacological properties. Our structural analysis also lays the foundation for the development of drugs that are not only based on peptides and possibly enable oral administration," adds the co-author of the study, Prof Joachim Geyer from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Justus Liebig University Giessen.

From Science Daily

"There have been many attempts to explain the peculiar brown film. In 1851, German chemist, Justus von Liebig, performed the first actual scientific investigation and determined that the brown film contained oxalates -- salts of oxalic acid. This has been confirmed by later analyses, but the origin of the oxalates has remained a mystery," says Professor emeritus Kaare Lund Rasmussen, an expert in chemical analyses of historical and archaeological artifacts, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark.

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