- Carl Bosch
Infobox_Scientist
name = Carl Bosch
image_size = 180px
birth_date = birth date|1874|8|27|df=y
birth_place =Cologne ,Germany
nationality =Germany
death_date = death date and age|1940|4|26|1874|8|27
death_place =Heidelberg ,Germany
field =Chemistry
work_institution =BASF
alma_mater = Technical College of Charlottenburg
doctoral_advisor =
doctoral_students =
known_for =Haber-Bosch process
prizes =Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1931)Carl Bosch (
August 27 ,1874 –April 26 ,1940 ) was a Germanchemist andengineer who won theNobel Prize in Chemistry .cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1931/bosch-bio.html |title=Carl Bosch Biography |accessdate= 2008-05-24 |publisher=Nobel Foundation]Biography
Bosch was born in
Cologne onAugust 27 ,1874 . He studied at the Technical College ofCharlottenburg (today theTechnical University of Berlin ) and theUniversity of Leipzig from 1892-1898. In 1899 he started to work atBASF . From 1908 until 1913 developed theHaber-Bosch process together withFritz Haber . AfterWorld War I he was working on petrol andmethanol synthesis viahigh pressure chemistry . In 1925 Bosch was one of the founders ofIG Farben and from 1935 chairman of the board of directors. He received theSiemens-Ring in 1924 for his own contributions to applied research and his patronate support to basic research. In 1931 he was awarded theNobel Prize in Chemistry together withFriedrich Bergius for the introduction of high pressure chemistry. He died inHeidelberg .He was also an amateur astronomer and the
asteroid 7414 Bosch was named in his honour [http://www.kleinplanetenseite.de/Versch/kphimmel.htm †] .Carl Bosch collected meteorites which were brought to
Yale University in 1949. [cite journal
author= Meteorites in the Carl Bosch Collection of Minerals Yale University
title = Carl Bosch und die Naturwissenschaft
journal = Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
year = 1949
volume = 5
issue = 6
pages = 299–300
doi = 10.1016/0016-7037(54)90037-X
url= ]References
*cite journal
author= Peter Hayes
title = Carl Bosch and Carl Krauch: Chemistry and the Political Economy of Germany, 1925-1945
journal = The Journal of Economic History
year = 1987
volume = 47
issue = 2
pages = 353–363
doi =
url= http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28198706%2947%3A2%3C353%3ACBACKC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4
*cite journal
author= K. Holdermann
title = Carl Bosch und die Naturwissenschaft
journal = Naturwissenschaften
year = 1949
volume = 36
issue = 6
pages = 161–165
doi = 10.1007/BF00626575
url=
*cite journal
author= Carl Krauch
title = Carl Bosch zum Gedächtnis
journal = Angewandte Chemie
year = 1940
volume = 53
issue = 27-28
pages = 285–288
doi = 10.1002/ange.19400532702
url=External articles
* [http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1931/bosch-bio.html Nobel biography]
* [http://uk.geocities.com/hertouyt/cgi-bin/bosch-speech.html recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods.]
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