Friedrichstadt
Friedrichstadt (; ; ; ; ) is a town in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the river Eider approx. 12 km (7 miles) south of Husum.
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The town was founded in 1621 by Dutch settlers. Duk ...
,
Courland Governorate
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'', April 20, 1939. Accessed November 2, 2015. "The family came to the United States in 1888 and after several years in New York the father bought a fram in Woodbine, N. J. There the boy gained several years' experience in farming." was a professor of agricultural chemistry and researcher in the fields of soil chemistry and
bacteriology
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Lipman was born in Friedrichstadt (now
Jaunjelgava
Jaunjelgava (, literally "New Jelgava"; ) is a town on the left bank of the Daugava River in Aizkraukle Municipality, in the Selonia region of Latvia, about 80 km southeast of Riga. The population in 2020 was 1,762.
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in
Latvia
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) on November 18, 1874. Attending school in
Moscow
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, he later attended the gymnasium in
Orenburg
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Orenburg is close to the ...
. He and his family immigrated to the United States in 1888, quickly settling on a farm in
Woodbine, New Jersey
Woodbine is a borough in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The borough, and all of Cape May County, is part of the South Jersey region of the state and of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the Ph ...
, where he learned about agriculture. His brother Charles Bernard Lipman would later become a professor of plant physiology. In 1894, he enrolled into
Rutgers College
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to study agricultural science and its founding principles, coming under the influence of E. V. Voorhees. He later attended
Cornell University
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to study advanced chemistry and bacteriology. Lipman was appointed to the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station in charge of its Department of Soil Chemistry and Bacteriology. Soon afterward, he became an instructor, then professor, of agricultural chemistry at nearby Rutgers College.
Lipman spent his entire career at the Agricultural Experiment Station and Rutgers. In 1911, he became director of the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. In 1925, Lipman was one of seven scientists consulted by the defense in the Scopes trial and who supplied an affidavit.
Nobelist
Selman Waksman
Selman Abraham Waksman (July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and severa ...
wrote a biography of the researcher, entitled ''Jacob G. Lipman: agricultural scientist, humanitarian'' (1966). He quotes Lipman stating: "We are indebted to science for a clearer vision of the great laws of nature and of the methods of the Divine Creator. The men of science, in carrying on their labors in a spirit of reverence and humility, try to interpret the great book of knowledge in order that the paths of man may fell in more pleasant places, and the ways of human society may be better keeping the divine purpose."Selman Abraham Waksman. 1966. ''Jacob G. Lipman: agricultural scientist, humanitarian''. Rutgers University Press, p. 25