EPISODE · May 20, 2026 · 14 MIN
The Haber-Bosch Process: How Two Chemists Fed Billions and Changed Warfare Forever
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In 1909, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch cracked one of chemistry's greatest challenges: pulling nitrogen from the air to make fertilizer. This single invention now feeds nearly half the world's population, but it also armed both sides of two world wars and forever altered Earth's nitrogen cycle.
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