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Carl Bosch

A man in a dark suit with a striped tie stands with his arms crossed, wearing round glasses and a mustache, against a neutral background.

German chemical engineer (1874–1940). Took Haber's bench-top ammonia synthesis and built it into an industrial process at BASF, solving the brutal metallurgical problem of containing hot hydrogen at 200 atmospheres without the steel embrittling and bursting. Shared the 1931 Nobel in Chemistry for the work. Privately opposed the Nazi regime while running IG Farben, was sidelined, and drank himself to death. His high-pressure reactor designs are essentially unchanged today.

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