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David

Darling

Bergius, Friedrich (1884–1949)

Friedrich Bergius

Friedrich Bergius was a German chemist who developed a method of treating coal with hydrogen, under high pressure, to produce oil. It became known as the Bergius process, and in 1931 Bergius shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Karl Bosch. He also developed a process for converting wood into sugar by hydrolysis.