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Justus von Liebig
The Chemical Gatekeeper

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Author: William H. Brock, University of Leicester

Date Published: June 2002
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521524735

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One of the founding fathers of organic chemistry and also a great teacher, the German scientist Justus von Liebig transformed scientific education, medical practice, and agriculture in Great Britain. William H. Brock's fresh interpretation of Liebig's stormy career shows how he moved chemistry into the sociopolitical marketplace, demonstrating its significance for society in food production, nutrition, and public health. Through his controversial ideas on artificial fertilizers and recycling, his theory of disease, and his stimulating suggestions concerning food and nutrition, he warned the world of the dangers of failing to recycle sewage or to replace soil nutrients. Liebig also played the role of an elder statesman of European science by commenting, via popular lectures and expansions of his readable Chemical Letters, on such issues as scientific methodology and materialism.

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- Winner of the Prize for the History of Justus-Liebig-University for the year 2000
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- Date Published: June 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521524735
- length: 396 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 154 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.676kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. From pharmacy to chemistry
2. Organic analysis and the Giessen Research School
3. Liebig and organic chemistry, 1820–40
4. Liebig and the British
5. Liebig and commerce
6. Liebig and the farmers: agricultural chemistry
7. Liebig and the doctors: animal chemistry
8. Liebig on toast: the chemistry of food
9. Liebig and London: the chemistry of sewage
10. Populariser of science: chemical letters
11. Philosopher of science: the Bacon Affair
12. Death and assessment
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.
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Author
William H. Brock, University of Leicester
Awards
- Winner of the Prize for the History of Justus-Liebig-University for the year 2000