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Carl Bosch : biography

27 August 1874 – 26 April 1940

Carl Bosch

Biography

Early years

Bosch was born in Cologne, Germany to a successful gas and plumbing supplier.Hager, Thomas (2008). The Alchemy of Air Harmony Books, New York. ISBN 978-0-307-35178-4. His uncle Robert Bosch pioneered the development of the spark plug. Carl, trying to decide between a career in metallurgy or chemistry, studied at the Technical College of Charlottenburg (today the Technische Universität Berlin) and the University of Leipzig from 1892–1898.

Career

Personal life

Bosch, a critic of many Nazi policies, was gradually relieved of his high positions after Hitler became chancellor, and fell into despair and alcoholism. He died in Heidelberg. http://www.educadores.diaadia.pr.gov.br/arquivos/File/tvmultimidia/imagens/3quimica/9haber-bosch.jpg Fritz Haber and Carl Boschttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/BASF_Werk_Ludwigshafen_1881.JPG BASF Where CArl Worked. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YMFreDbGCus/UXE1E_uz5BI/AAAAAAAABG0/F2ExTcQ7McY/s654/catalytic_converter.gif BASF’s Production

Legacy

The Haber–Bosch Process today consumes more than one percent of the energy on Earth and is responsible for feeding roughly one-third of its population.Smil, Vaclav. Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (2001) On average, one-half of the nitrogen in a human body is synthetic, the product of a Haber–Bosch plant.BBC: Discovery – Can Chemistry Save The World? – 2. Fixing the Nitrogen Fix Bosch was an ardent collector of insects, minerals, and gems. His collected meteorites and other mineral samples were loaned to Yale University, and eventually purchased by the Smithsonian. He was an amateur astronomer with a well-equipped private observatory. The asteroid 7414 Bosch was named in his honour.

Carl Bosch along with Fritz Haber were voted The Most Popular Chemical Engineers Ever by readers of the TCE Magazine.

The Haber-Bosch process, quite possibly the best-known chemical process in the world, which captures nitrogen from the air and converts it to ammonia has its hand in the process of Green Revolution which has been feeding the increasing population of world.

Bosch also won numerous awards including the honorary doctorate of the Techishule in Karlsruhe (1918). he was also awarded the Liebig Memorial Medal of the Association of German Chemists along with the Bunsen Medal of the German Bunsen Society, the Siemens Ring, and the Golden Grashof Memorial medal of the VDI. In 1931 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the contribution to the invention of chemical high pressure methods. There is also an asteroid named after him, the 7414 Bosch. He also received the Exner medal from the Austrian Trade Association. The Carl Lueg Memorial Medal was also given to him as well as the Although, Bosch really enjoyed his membership of various German and foreign scientific academics, and his chairmanship of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society of which he became the President in 1937.http://humantouchofchemistry.com/carl-bosch.htm