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Carl Bosch
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Carl Bosch

Inventor · born August 27, 1874 · died 1940

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Carl Bosch 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.

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  1. ~57Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1931
  2. ~65Received the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt1939

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