Adolph Frank
Adolph Frank · Science & Medicine
Industrial chemist known for the potash industry and the cyanamide process
1834, Klötze, Prussia (now Germany) — 1916, Berlin, Germany
Germany
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Frank was a German Jewish industrial chemist who pioneered the exploitation of the Stassfurt potash deposits, creating the modern potash industry, and co-developed the Frank–Caro cyanamide process for nitrogen fixation. His work laid groundwork for industrial fertilizer production. He was born into a Jewish family in Prussia.
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Industrial chemist known for the potash industry and the cyanamide process
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
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