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Founders: #86 Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber (A Genius and a Doomed Tycoon)

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[00:00:00] This is the story of two men who invented a way to turn air into bread, built factories the size of small cities, made enormous fortunes, helped engineer the deaths of millions of people, and saved the lives of billions more. Their work stands, I believe, as the most important discovery ever made. See if you can think of another that ranks with it in terms of life and death importance for the largest number of people. Most people do not know the names of either the men or their invention. Their work lives today in the form of giant factories, usually located in remote areas, that…

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