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Carl Bosch

1874 - 1940

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Carl Bosch (German pronunciation: [kaʁl ˈbɔʃ] ; 27 August 1874 – 26 April 1940) was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world's largest chemical company. He also developed the Haber–Bosch process, important for the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives. It is estimated that one-third of annual global food production uses ammonia from the Haber–Bosch process, and that this supports nearly half of the world's population. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Bosch is the 82nd most popular chemist (down from 38th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from Germany (down from 311th in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Chemist.

Carl Bosch is most famous for inventing the process of high-pressure chemical synthesis of ammonia.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Carl Bosch ranks 82 out of 602. Before him are Tu Youyou, Paul Sabatier, Albert Hofmann, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Jan Baptist van Helmont, and Frederick Sanger. After him are Robert S. Mulliken, Friedrich Bergius, Hans Fischer, James B. Sumner, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, and J. D. Bernal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Carl Bosch ranks 15. Before him are Johannes Stark, Max Scheler, Ernst Cassirer, Sunjong of Korea, Chaim Weizmann, and Edward Thorndike. After him are John D. Rockefeller Jr., Lou Henry Hoover, Lucy Maud Montgomery, António Egas Moniz, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Shackleton. Among people deceased in 1940, Carl Bosch ranks 12. Before him are Neville Chamberlain, Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Arthur Harden, Nikolai Yezhov, and Robert Wadlow. After him are Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, Verner von Heidenstam, Emma Goldman, Manuel Azaña, John Buchan, and Peter Behrens.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Bosch ranks 325 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Anton Drexler (1884), Bertha Benz (1849), Katharina von Bora (1498), and Richard Dedekind (1831). After him are Erich Hartmann (1922), Carl Zeiss (1816), Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781), Friedrich Ratzel (1844), Heinrich von Kleist (1777), and Wilhelm Frick (1877).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Carl Bosch ranks 19. Before him are Otto Diels (1876), Robert Bunsen (1811), Justus von Liebig (1803), Karl Ziegler (1898), Hermann Staudinger (1881), and Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873). After him are Hans Fischer (1881), Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), Manfred Eigen (1927), Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), and Gerhard Ertl (1936).

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