Justus von Liebig
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Justus Freiherr von Liebig was a German scientist who made major contributions to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of chemistry, as well as to agricultural and biological chemistry; he is considered
Liebig c. 1866
The young Liebig: 1843 lithograph after an 1821 painting (Liebighaus)
Justus von Liebig, by Wilhelm Trautschold, circa 1846
Liebig's laboratory at Giessen, by Wilhelm Trautschold
Year Without a Summer
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The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C. Summer temperatures in Europe that year w
Justus von Liebig
…and pigments, which he developed in his own workshop. From childhood, Justus was fascinated with chemistry. At the age of 13, Liebig lived through the year without a summer, when the majority of food crops in the Northern Hemisphere were destroyed by a volcanic winter. Germany was among the hardest-hit nations in the global…
The Monk by the Sea (ca. 1808–1810)
Two Men by the Sea (1817)
Chichester Canal (1828) by J. M. W. Turner