Enriching the Earth
Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production
- Paperback
358 pages
- Release Date
27 February 2004
Summary
Dr. Smil is the world’s authority on nitrogenous fertilizer.The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the airplane, nuclear energy, space flight, or television. The expansion of the world’s population from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to today’s six billion would not have been possible without the synthesis of ammonia.In Enriching the Earth, Vaclav Smil begins with a discussion of nitrogen’…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262693134 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262693135 |
| Author: | Vaclav Smil |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 358 |
| Release Date: | 27 February 2004 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 21mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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“This is a wonderful book, highly readable and replete with referenced data.” - John Emsley, Nature; “Broad and imaginative, meticulously argued and fully documented, yet lively and readable, this surprising book…opens a door wide to a dimly lit corner of high-tech, to offer us a new understanding of a major change.” - Philip and Phylis Morrison, American Scientist; “A very welcome contribution to the interdisciplinary field of environmental studies.” - Juan Ilerbaig, The Quarterly Review of Biology”
About The Author
Vaclav Smil
Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of forty books, including Energy and Civilization, published by the MIT Press. In 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. In 2013 Bill Gates wrote on his website that “there is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.”
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