John Bennet Lawes, 1st baronet
1814–1900
Agricultural chemist. Developed British industrial production of organic and chemical fertilisers and founded the Rothamsted Experiment Station near St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 1843. Created baronet, 1882. FRS 1854.
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ODNB
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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