Around 1910, for chemical co. BASF, Carl Bosch learned to make quantities of this gas from nitrogen & hydrogen
The Haber-Bosch process combined nitrogen and hydrogen to... ... nitrogen and 
hydrogen to form ammonia in industrial quantities for production of ... as an 
assistant in the Department of Chemical and Fuel Technology at the ... year the 
process was turned over to the German chemist Carl Bosch at BASF... [DOC] [TLE] The Nitrogen Bomb | DiscoverMagazine.com [PAR] Apr 1, 2001 ... By learning to draw fertilizer from a clear blue sky, chemists have ... that the 
limiting factor in food production was the amount of nitrogen in the soil.