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Carl Bosch was a German chemist and engineer. He won the 1931 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for formulating chemical high-pressure methods.

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Carl Bosch was a German chemist and engineer. He won the 1931 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for formulating chemical high-pressure methods. He was a pioneer in the area of high-pressure industrial chemistry and a founder of IG Farben, which became the world’s largest chemical company.

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EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

  • Carl Bosch was born on August 27, 1874, in Cologne, Germany, to a successful gas and plumbing supplier.
  • His uncle, Robert Bosch, introduced the development of the spark plug. He also founded the multinational company, Bosch.
  • Carl was the oldest of six children. As a child, Carl had a love for nature and loved collecting minerals and animals.
  • Like his father, Carl also enjoyed craftsmanship and made birdcages and a terrarium for his animals.
  • After he finished schooling gymnasium in 1893, Bosch studied metallurgy and mechanical engineering at the Technical College of Charlottenburg.
  • He moved to the University of Leipzig and studied chemistry, physics, mineralogy, and natural science in 1896.
  • In 1898, Carl received his doctoral degree with a thesis in organic chemistry.
  • Bosch then accepted an entry-level job at BASF, a leading German chemical company.
  • He first worked on creating the compounds required for the synthesis of artificial indigo pigment.

CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

  • By 1900, Bosch was acknowledged by his employers as an excellent research chemist. He was then assigned to work on the important nitrogen fixation project.
  • At the beginning of the 20th century, the world was quickly running out of natural fertilizer. A cost-effective, industrial process was required that could make ammonia from nitrogen. The ammonia could then be applied to make fertilizer.
  • After several false starts, BASF became interested in and supported the research of chemist Fritz Haber, who had discovered a laboratory process for synthesizing ammonia.
  • Haber and Bosch entered into a partnership in 1909 to adapt the laboratory process for synthesizing ammonia into commercial-scale production.
  • A more affordable catalyst, iron with alumina, was discovered and used to replace osmium.
  • The steel reaction tube was constructed as a double-walled chamber in order for the tube to cope with the huge pressures involved.
  • They both formulated the process that bore their names – the Haber–Bosch process.
  • In the Haber–Bosch process, ammonia is manufactured on an industrial scale by passing hydrogen and nitrogen gases over the catalyst at a high temperature and under high pressure.
  • This process came to be the most commonly used large-scale process for nitrogen fixation. In 1913, the production at the plant started with a capacity of 20 tons of ammonia per day.
  • The next thing that challenged Bosh was to find an industrial process to make nitric acid from ammonia. A full-scale plant was up and running in 1915. Much of the nitric acid was used to manufacture gunpowder for the German military in World War I.
  • Bosch became the director of BASF in 1916.
  • He developed a process for converting carbon monoxide and hydrogen into methanol for use in manufacturing formaldehyde in 1923.
  • The industrial process again included high temperatures and high pressures.
  • Bosch was appointed the president of I.G. Farben in 1925.
  • I.G. Farben was formed from a merger of the 8 largest dyestuff companies in Germany.
  • This company bought the patents of Friedrich Bergius, who had a high-pressure method for turning coal into gasoline (hydrogenation of coal).
  • In 1926, I.G. Farben was using tar oil and coal to make over 100,000 metric tons of gasoline a year.
  • In 1931, Bosch shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry with Friedrich Bergius for his work on the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods.
  • In 1935, he became the successor to Max Planck as the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.

PERSONAL DETAILS AND DEATH

  • Bosch got married in 1902 to Else Schilback. The couple had a son and a daughter.
  • Being a critic of many Nazi policies, Bosch was slowly relieved of his high positions after Hitler turned became the chancellor. Bosch fell into depression and alcoholism.
  • On April 26, 1940, Carl Bosch died after a prolonged illness in Heidelberg, Germany, at the age of 65.

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