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IF Justus Liebig had no other claims on the gratitude of posterity, we shppld stiil be indebted to him for the part whidh he played in emphasising the value of chemistry as an educational factor. He it was who first showed the importance of practical work in any scheme of scientific training; and, as Kolbe has pointed out, it was from the Giesn laboratory that that system emanated by whicth a student commenced with qualitative exercises, passed on to quantitative analysis, then to a series of prearations, leading up finally to independent research. Liebig's suckss, in stimulating pupils to original thought is event from a brief survey Of the classical memoirs that were worked out in his laboratory, and of a few of the more illustrious of his numerous “schülr,” including as they did such names as A. Hofmann, Strecker, Fresenlus, Pl¢yfaii, Williamson, Wurtz and Frankland.
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The Development of Chemical Research 1 . Nature 64, 430–431 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064430a0
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