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    [citation needed] John Bennet Lawes was born at Rothamsted, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, on 28 December 1814, the only son of John Bennet Lawes, owner of the...
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    it was not able to be properly absorbed by crops.[citation needed] John Bennet Lawes, an English entrepreneur, began to experiment on the effects of various...
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    35528 The Rothamsted Experimental Station was founded in 1843 by John Bennet Lawes, a noted Victorian era entrepreneur and scientist who had founded...
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    experiment station established by John Bennet Lawes at Rothamsted, near St. Albans. Thomson recommended Gilbert to Lawes who wished to conduct studies on...
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  • John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900) was an English businessman and scientist. John Lawes may also refer to: Sir John Lawes School, a secondary school in Harpenden...
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    future Senate colleague) John Hickenlooper, and superintendent of Denver Public Schools. Bennet is the son of Douglas J. Bennet, a former State Department...
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  • Bennet, 5th Baronet of the Bennet baronets John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900), English entrepreneur and agricultural scientist John Bennett (disambiguation)...
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    cousin John Bennet. He in turn left the manor to John Bennet Lawes, the son of his sister. In 1843, Sir John Bennet Lawes, the son of the earlier John Bennet...
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  • scientist John Bennet Lawes. Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet (1814–1899) Sir Charles Lawes-Wittewronge, 2nd Baronet (1843–1911) Sir John Bennet Lawes-Wittewronge...
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  • footballer Courtney Lawes (born 1989), rugby union player Frank Lawes, English composer Henry Lawes, English musician and composer John Bennet Lawes, English entrepreneur...
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  • use of gypsum (hydrated calcium sulfate) as a fertilizer. In 1843, John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert began a set of long-term field experiments...
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  • could be made available for plants by dissolution in sulfuric acid. John Bennet Lawes, who farmed in Hertfordshire, learnt of these discoveries and conducted...
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  • December 13 – Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse (died 1880). December 28 – John Bennet Lawes, English agricultural scientist (died 1900). July 19 – Captain Matthew...
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    1893, commemorating 50 years of experiments by Sir John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert.. Lawes inherited the family estate at Rothamsted in 1834...
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    twelve works at the Royal Academy. Charles Bennet Lawes was born at Teignmouth, Devon, the only son of Sir John Lawes of Rothamsted Manor, Hertfordshire. He...
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  • Étienne Lenoir (born 1822), Belgian mechanical engineer. August 31 – John Bennet Lawes (born 1814), English agricultural scientist. September 4 – Charles...
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  • (Silver), Lawes (Orange), Newton (Blue) and Ryder (Purple), named for Jane Austen, Benjamin Britten, Barbara Hepworth, Martin Luther King Jr., John Bennet Lawes...
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    other investigators started experimentation based on it. In England John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert worked in the Rothamsted Experimental Station...
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    place, partly driven by an intermingling of economics and research. John Bennet Lawes, an English entrepreneur, began experimenting on the effects of various...
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    suit, German, 1881. Vanity Fair sketch of agricultural scientist John Bennet Lawes portrays him in walking clothes. His coat with a waist seam and skirts...
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    phosphate of lime in bone meal with sulfuric acid. Another pioneer was John Bennet Lawes who began to experiment on the effects of various manures on plants...
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  • La-series aircraft, first operational surface-to-air missile S-25 Berkut John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900), UK – superphosphate or chemical fertilizer Ernest Orlando...
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    and columns). Factorial designs were used in the 19th century by John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert of the Rothamsted Experimental Station. Ronald...
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  • telegraph. 1842: William Robert Grove invents the first fuel cell. 1842: John Bennet Lawes invents superphosphate, the first man-made fertilizer. 1844: Friedrich...
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    Dr. Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu // (born September 30, 1968) is a Nigerian-American physician, forensic pathologist, and neuropathologist who was the first...
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    Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist in the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. She is often referred to as Eliza or Lizzy by her friends and...
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    The first petrol-driven tractor was built in America by John Froelich in 1892. John Bennet Lawes began the scientific investigation of fertilization at...
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  • chemical fertilizer developed by John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900). 1850s: Steam-driven ploughing engine invented by John Fowler (1826–1864). 1901: First commercially...
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    Hofmann, Robert Warington Jr. became in 1859 an unpaid assistant to Sir John Bennet Lawes at Rothamsted Experimental Station at Harpenden. Warington was from...
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    (1817–1901; chemist) John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900; agricultural scientist) Eric Morecambe (1926–1984; comedian and entertainer; ashes) Edward John Russell (1872–1965;...
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