On This Day – Aug 27 : Carl Bosch was born

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His work transformed agriculture and industry. He co-developed the Haber-Bosch process, a method of fixing nitrogen using high pressure chemistry. Today this consumes more than 1% of the energy on Earth and is responsible for feeding around 30% of its population.

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