Editing Carl Bosch (section)

== Legacy ==
The Haber–Bosch Process today consumes more than one percent of humanity's energy production and is responsible for feeding roughly one-third of its population.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Enriching the earth|last = Smil|first = Vaclav|publisher = MIT Press|year = 2001|location = Cambridge, Massachusetts|oclc = 61678151}}</ref> On average, one-half of the nitrogen in a human body comes from synthetically fixed sources, the product of a Haber–Bosch plant.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00dzl8p|title=Fixing the Nitrogen Fix, Can Chemistry Save The World?, Discovery – BBC World Service|website=BBC|access-date=27 August 2016}}</ref> Bosch was an ardent collector of insects, minerals, and gems. His collected meteorites and other mineral samples were loaned to [[Yale University]], and eventually purchased by the [[Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian]].<ref>{{cite news | last=Wilson | title=Carl Bosch (1874–1940) | url=http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=205 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928083822/http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=205 | url-status=dead | archive-date=28 September 2006 | work=The Mineralogical Record | year=2013 | access-date=15 December 2013 | department=Biographical Archive<!-- archived April 2013 at https://archive.today/20130415111138/http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=205 --> | first=Wendell E. }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last= Servos | title=Meteorites in the Carl Bosch Collection of Minerals Yale University | journal=Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | year=1954 | volume=5 | issue=6 | pages=299–300 | doi=10.1016/0016-7037(54)90037-X|bibcode = 1954GeCoA...5..299S |first = Kurt}}{{Registration required}}</ref>  He was an amateur astronomer with a well-equipped private observatory. The [[asteroid]] [[7414 Bosch]] was named in his honour.<ref>{{cite web | last1=Lehmann  | title=Amateurastronomen am Sternenhimmel | url=http://www.kleinplanetenseite.de/Versch/kphimmel.htm | publisher=Amateure am Sternenhimmel | date=27 October 2004 | access-date=15 December 2013|language = German<!-- archived in Aug 2012 at https://archive.today/20120803063615/http://www.kleinplanetenseite.de/Versch/kphimmel.htm -->|first1 = Gerhard|last2 = Kandler|first2 = Jens|first3 = André|last3 = Knöfel}}</ref>

Carl Bosch along with Fritz Haber were voted the world's most influential chemical engineers of all time by members of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.icheme.org/media_centre/news/2011/haber%20and%20bosch%20named%20top%20chemical%20engineers.aspx |title=Haber and Bosch named top chemical engineers |publisher=Institution of Chemical Engineers |date=21 February 2011 |access-date=15 December 2013<!-- archived June 2012 at https://archive.today/20120629061631/http://www.icheme.org/media_centre/news/2011/haber%20and%20bosch%20named%20top%20chemical%20engineers.aspx%23.T-1IOKgo_KA --> |website=IChemE.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005012711/http://www.icheme.org/media_centre/news/2011/haber%20and%20bosch%20named%20top%20chemical%20engineers.aspx |archive-date=5 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The [[Haber–Bosch process]], quite possibly the best-known chemical process in the world, which captures nitrogen from the air and converts it to ammonia, has its hand in the process of the [[Green Revolution]] that has been feeding the increasing population of the world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tcetoday.com/chemical%20engineers%20who%20changed%20the%20world.aspx |title=Chemical engineers who changed the world |at=2010 Entries: Feed the world |date=March 2010 |publisher=Institution of Chemical Engineers |website=tce today |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110320142112/http://www.tcetoday.com/chemical%20engineers%20who%20changed%20the%20world.aspx |archive-date=20 March 2011 }}</ref>

Bosch also won numerous awards including an honorary doctorate from [[Karlsruhe Institute of Technology|Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe]] (1918), the Liebig Memorial Medal of the Association of German Chemists along with the Bunsen Medal of the German Bunsen Society, the Siemens Ring, and the Golden Grashof Memorial medal of the VDI. In 1931 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the contribution to the invention of [[High-pressure chemistry|chemical high pressure methods]].  He also received the Exner medal from the Austrian Trade Association and the Carl Lueg Memorial Medal.  Bosch also enjoyed his membership of various German and foreign scientific academics, and his chairmanship of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society of which he became the President in 1937.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://humantouchofchemistry.com/carl-bosch.htm |title=Famous Scientists – Carl Bosch |publisher=Tata Chemicals |access-date=15 December 2013 |website=The Human Touch of Chemistry<!-- archived June 2013 at https://archive.today/20130629114601/http://humantouchofchemistry.com/carl-bosch.htm --> |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629114601/http://humantouchofchemistry.com/carl-bosch.htm |archive-date=29 June 2013 }}</ref>