Justus Liebig (1803-1873) in 1853

Professor of Chemistry -- Giessen (1824) and Munich (1852)

• Radical theory
• Improved elemental analysis
• Introduced laboratory instruction
• Agricultural and physiological chemistry
• Along with Wohler, extended the concept of isomerism put forth by Berzelius
• Liebig, the "hopelessly useless"
• Liebig, aniline and the dye industry
• Liebig on the spontaneous combustion of the human body