Around 1910, for chemical co. BASF, Carl Bosch learned to make quantities of this gas from nitrogen & hydrogen
... in 
order to learn about the most advanced chemical engineering techniques of his 
time, ... Karl Bosch, whose company, Badische Anilin-und Sodafabrik (BASF), 
had... [DOC] [TLE] Friedrich Bergius and the Rise of the German Synthetic Fuel Industry [PAR] size operation and shows the difficulties Bergius faced in making the transfor ... 
coal into synthetic petroleum by causing the coal to react with hydrogen gas at ... 
new chemical process, and in 1912 he received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for 
.... BASF's chairman of the board, the chemist Carl Bosch (1874-1940) 
successfully.