Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch. The Haber-Bosch process artificially fixes nitrogen by breaking the inert triple bond of nitrogen ...

Until a German Jewish chemist named Fritz Haber figured out how to turn this trick in 1909, all the usable nitrogen on earth had at one time been fixed by soil bacteria living on the roots of ...

Like the energy in lightning, it takes an enormous amount of pressure and heat to rip apart the intimate narcissism of nitrogen atoms. Only in 1907 did the German chemist, Fritz Haber, figure out ...