But there, I finished an excellent book: Thomas Hager's The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler (2009), about the invention of the fixed-nitrogen process. Great history-of-science and cultural history; besides the invention, it explains why Chile was so strongly left-of-center.
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For anyone wondering what the heck he's talking about, it's the Haber Bosch Process
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