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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler (2008 original; edició 2009)

de Thomas Hager (Autor)

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The extraordinary, previously untold story of two master scientists, enormously gifted, fatally flawed men who found the solution to global starvation. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, controlled world markets, and saved millions of lives. Their invention continues to feed us today; without it, more than two billion people would starve.… (més)
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Títol:The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
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A well told story of the Habar Bosch process of making synthetic fertiliser. Covering from the 1880’s to World War II. Harbar a Jewish German who made one the most significant inventions of the 20th Century which saved millions of lives also is the inventor of Mustard Gas. From being hailed as a national hero to fleeing his beloved Germany as Hitler laws against Its Jewish citizens become impossible . The story of these two remarkable scientists is full of contradictions and covers a fascinating part of history . It’s easy to read even for the non scientist.
  MaureenTherese | May 10, 2022 |
The beginning of the book, about the fertilizer industry in South America before Haber-Bosch, was really interesting. Things lag a bit in the middle then pick up again towards the end. Less a science book and more a history book, very little of the book is devoted to the actual development of the Haber-Bosch reaction. The focus is on how the process affected Haber, Bosch, Germany and the world. ( )
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Like many critical scientific discoveries of our time – antibiotics, vaccinations, combustion engines – the ability to create fixed nitrogen from air is now a fact, a given. There is food on our table because someone, somewhere was able to grow it and most first world citizens give it little more thought. What Thomas Hager illustrates strikingly well in The Alchemy of Air is that it's only for an invention called the Haber-Bosch process that billions of people escaped famine and starvation 50 years ago.

The Alchemy of Air is the story of Fritz Haber & Carl Bosch – brilliant men whose drive and genius changed the world for billions. It's the story of ambition, loss, regret, and the butterfly effect of science. Even today, as we all benefit from Haber-Bosch, there are seen and unforeseen ramifications that continue to shape the world we live in.

Read The Alchemy of Air and I assure you you'll put the book down with a wildly different perspective on what it takes to put food on your family's table each day as well as the true costs of that food. ( )
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Introduction:

Creatures of the Air


This is the story of two men who invented a way to turn air into bread, built factories the size of small cities, made enormous fortunes, helped engineer the deaths of millions of people, and saved the lives of billions more.
The prophecy was made in the fall of 1898, in a music hall in Bristol, England, by a thin man with a graying, neatly trimmed beard and a mustache waxed  to alarmingly long, needlelike points.
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The extraordinary, previously untold story of two master scientists, enormously gifted, fatally flawed men who found the solution to global starvation. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, controlled world markets, and saved millions of lives. Their invention continues to feed us today; without it, more than two billion people would starve.

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