2 ideas from Carl Bosch, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.
Before the 20th century, farms were limited by how much nitrogen fertiliser the soil and manure could supply. Fritz Haber worked out how to pull nitrogen straight from the air and …
— Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, The Haber-Bosch Process
In 1909, chemist Fritz Haber found a way to force nitrogen from the air to combine with hydrogen into ammonia under huge heat and pressure; engineer Carl Bosch then scaled the reac…
— Fritz Haber & Carl Bosch, Haber Process