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LUDWIG MOND, patron of the arts and sciences, was born on March 7, 1839, and the commemoration of his centenary is a convenient opportunity to recall something of what we owe to him. Originally German and later a naturalized British subject, he perfected and established in Great Britain the ammonia-soda process which brought into being the firm of Messrs. Brunner, Mond and Company, the nucleus of Messrs. Imperial Chemical Industries, Limited. He also devised satisfactory processes of nitrogen recovery and for the manufacture of producer gas, which latter process is the property of the Power Gas Corporation. No less well known is Ludwig Mond's process for the production of pure nickel, in which a newly discovered and unique compound immediately found important technical application. Throughout his life, he was pre-eminent as a chemist and investigator. His amassing great wealth was the result and not the object of his work.
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Ludwig Mond, F.R.S. (1839–1909). Nature 143, 369 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143369c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143369c0