If you don’t think this work important, consider that half the nitrogen in your body is synthetic, a product of a Haber-Bosch factory. Or that without the added food made possible by their discovery, the earth could only support about 4 billion people – at least 2 billion less than today.
如果你认为这并不重要，那么想象一下你体内半数的氮元素都来自人工合成，是哈伯－博世工厂的产品。你还可以想象一下如果没有这项发明增加的粮食产量，地球只能供养约50亿人口——至少比今天的人口少20亿之多。