Carl Bosch
German chemical engineer (1874–1940)
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GermanyHe turned air into bread. The process Carl Bosch scaled up pulls nitrogen from the atmosphere to make ammonia — the base of synthetic fertilizer that now feeds roughly half the planet.
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Born in 1874, Bosch was a German chemist and engineer who took Fritz Haber's lab-scale ammonia synthesis and made it work at industrial pressure and temperature — a problem most thought unsolvable. The Haber–Bosch process went live in 1913 and changed agriculture forever, enabling mass fertilizer production and, less cheerfully, explosives on a new scale. He co-founded IG Farben, which became the largest chemical company on earth. Later he co-developed the Bosch-Meiser urea process. He won the Nobel in Chemistry and died in 1940, having engineered the chemical backbone of modern food supply.
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