Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production

by Vaclav Smil

Book Overview

Dr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer.

The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the airplane, nuclear energy, space flight, or television. The expansion of the world's population from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to today's six billion would not have been possible without the synthesis of ammonia.

In Enriching...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262693135
• ISBN13: 9780262693134
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher