Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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in principle in th ion was i to Id irly in the i ntu v e a- j I but i WOT] cult te t h ields lying bef i them. There v. re i Bch( mistr; no I ies r instruction a' 1 i ai rach s we ind lay. But there wer a few brilliant w rkers—Sir Humphry Davy in Ei ?land, with hi y of the alkali met iy Lussae in Fran \ with his laws of s and discovery of i line: Berzelius in Sweden, with his incredible achievements in the d velopment of analytical methods 1 determination of equivalent weights. And for each of these there was another who ained from him an inspiration for scientific achievement—Faraday from Davy, Wohler from Berzelius and Liebig from I iy Lussae. But Liebig did much more than go back to Germany to work in a laboratory of his own with perhaps an assistant or two. He founded in Giesen a laboratory for the training of investigators and it is scarcely possible to overestimate the importance of the influences which went out from that laboratory. To that laboratory came a company of enthusiastic young men gathered from all over the world. These men gained from their association with Liebig something of vastly g\ at or importance than a knowledge of chemistry—they carried away an inspira)V tion ^ research and an enthusiasm for the laboral ry method of instruction. Largely tx m that laboratory as a center 0h< aical laboratories for the training of students spread throughout Germany and Hi,' world. I b • fundamental prineipli o[' lal raton
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