Carl Bosch

Carl Bosch
Carl Bosch
Born	27 August 1874(1874-08-27) Cologne, Germany
Died	April 26, 1940 (aged 65) Heidelberg, Germany
Fields	chemistry
Institutions	BASF
Alma mater	Technical College of Charlottenburg
Known for	Haber-Bosch process
Notable awards	Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1931)

Carl Bosch (August 27, 1874 – April 26, 1940) was a German chemist and engineer who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.^[1]

[edit] Biography

Bosch was born in Cologne on August 27, 1874.^[1] He studied at the Technical College of Charlottenburg (today the Technical University of Berlin) and the University of Leipzig from 1892-1898. In 1899 he started to work at BASF. From 1908 until 1913 developed the Haber-Bosch process together with Fritz Haber. After World War I he was working on petrol and methanol synthesis via high pressure chemistry. In 1925 Bosch was one of the founders of IG Farben and from 1935 chairman of the board of directors. He received the Siemens-Ring in 1924 for his own contributions to applied research and his patronate support to basic research. In 1931 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Friedrich Bergius for the introduction of high pressure chemistry. He died in Heidelberg.

He was also an amateur astronomer and the asteroid 7414 Bosch was named in his honour †.

Carl Bosch collected meteorites which were brought to Yale University in 1949.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Carl Bosch Biography. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-05-24.
^ Meteorites in the Carl Bosch Collection of Minerals Yale University (1949). "Carl Bosch und die Naturwissenschaft". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 5 (6): 299-300. doi:10.1016/0016-7037(54)90037-X.

Peter Hayes (1987). "Carl Bosch and Carl Krauch: Chemistry and the Political Economy of Germany, 1925-1945". The Journal of Economic History 47 (2): 353-363.
K. Holdermann (1949). "Carl Bosch und die Naturwissenschaft". Naturwissenschaften 36 (6): 161-165. doi:10.1007/BF00626575.
Carl Krauch (1940). "Carl Bosch zum Gedächtnis". Angewandte Chemie 53 (27-28): 285-288. doi:10.1002/ange.19400532702.

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Theodor Svedberg (1926) · Heinrich Wieland (1927) · Adolf Windaus (1928) · Arthur Harden / Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1929) · Hans Fischer (1930) · Carl Bosch / Friedrich Bergius (1931) · Irving Langmuir (1932) · Harold Urey (1934) · Frédéric Joliot-Curie / Irène Joliot-Curie (1935) · Peter Debye (1936) · Walter Haworth / Paul Karrer (1937) · Richard Kuhn (1938) · Adolf Butenandt / Lavoslav Ružička (1939) · George de Hevesy (1943) · Otto Hahn (1944) · Artturi Virtanen (1945) · James B. Sumner / John Northrop / Wendell Meredith Stanley (1946) · Robert Robinson (1947) · Arne Tiselius (1948) · William Giauque (1949) · Otto Diels / Kurt Alder (1950)

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