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Friedrich Bergius, though he is one of Germany's most brilliant chemists, may some day be the most bitterly hated by that country's common people. He is a specialist in those technologies to which necessity is not only mother but sedulous nurse. Vivid in the German mind is a hateful memory of the Ersatz (substitute) foods consumed in great quantities during and after the War. If natural food again becomes scarce in Germany, Chemist Bergius will doubtless be in charge of producing Ersatz food for empty German stomachs. Lately he has worked out on a mass-production...
...young Bergius conceived the idea of making motor fuel from coal by hydrogenation under high heat and heavy pressure. Over the following two decades he and other chemists in Germany, Britain and Canada converted the idea into an industrial fact. Finely powdered coal is made into a paste by mixing with tar or a tar derivative, the mixture fed into a heavy steel cylinder. At 840° F, hydrogen gas is brought in under 3,700 Ib. per sq. in. pressure. The hydrogen combines with the carbon or carbon compounds in the coal...
Last week Dr. Bergius, bald and 52, was spotlighted in Pittsburgh at the convention of the American Chemical Society...
...industrial chemist, Friedrich Bergius was born in what is now the Polish Corridor, became assistant to Fritz Haber who won a Nobel Prize for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Bergius himself was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1931, now lives at Heidel- berg in close touch with its university...
...foremost scholars of the world have gathered in Cambridge to hold the most spectacular intellectual symposium of modern times. The explanation of their respective countries and peoples given by Prof. Anesaki of Japan and Dr. HuShin of China; the glimpses into industrialism of the future disclosed by Dr. Bergius; and the startling possibilities of the work done in biological chemistry by such men as Ruzicka of Switzerland; are the parts of the Tercentenary to be permanently remembered. The flattery of Boston newspapers is pleasant, the exercises in the new Tercentenary theater cannot fail to be impressive, nor the fireworks...