Lawes, John Bennet

Lawes, John Bennet, Sir (1814-1900) English entrepreneur and agricultural scientist he founded an experimental farm at Rothamsted, where he developed a superphosphate that would mark the beginnings of the chemical fertilizer industry. 

Dyke, G.V. (1991). John Bennet Lawes. The Record of His Genius. Research Studies Press Ltd., Taunton, Somerset, UK. 

Although two Swedish chemists. Carle Scheele and Johann Galen, had shown in 1769 that calcium phosphate was the principal constituent of bones, the first commercial superphosphate fertilizer did not appear until 1843. John Bennet Lawes (1814—1900), an Oxford graduate, is credited with developing the process that consists of treating phosphate rock (PR)... 

John Bennet Lawes (1814-1900). Courtesy of Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England. 

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