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Bergius Botanical Garden
Bergius is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), German chemist * Jere Bergius (born 1987), Finnish pole vaulter * Karl Heinrich Bergius (1790–1818), Prussian botanist, naturalist, cavalryman and pharmacist * Peter Jonas Bergius (1730–1790), Swedish botanist See also *Bergius process, a method of production of liquid hydrocarbons *Berg (surname) Berg is a surname of North European origin. In several Germanic languages (e.g. German, Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish anish: Bjerg, the word means "mount", "mountain" or "cliff". Notable people sharing the surname "Berg" In music *Alban B ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Bergius German-language surnames Swedish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Bergius
Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius (, 11 October 1884 – 30 March 1949) was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1931, together with Carl Bosch) in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods. Having worked with IG Farben during World War II, his citizenship came into question following the war, causing him to ultimately flee to Argentina, where he acted as adviser to the Ministry of Industry. Bergius was born near Breslau (Wrocław), within the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia. Academic career Before studying chemistry, Bergius was sent to work for 6 months at the Friedrich Wilhelms steel works in Mülheim. His studies started at the University of Breslau in 1903 and ended with a PhD in chemistry at the University of Leipzig in 1907, after only 4 years. His thesis on sulfuric acid as solvent was supervised by Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch. In 1909 Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jere Bergius
Jere Bergius (born 4 April 1987 in Vesilahti) is a retired Finnish pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...er. He competed in the pole vault event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Competition record †: No mark in the final.References 1987 births Living people[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Heinrich Bergius
Karl Heinrich Bergius (1790–1818), also known as Carl Heinrich Bergius, was a Prussia, Prussian botany, botanist, Natural history, naturalist, Cavalry, cavalryman and pharmacy, pharmacist from Küstrin. He is notable for his natural history collecting in southern Africa. Bergius served as a cavalryman in the Prussian campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, for which he was awarded the Iron Cross. He subsequently studied pharmacy in Berlin where his botanical interests were noted by Martin Lichtenstein at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin Zoological Museum. Lichtenstein encouraged him to go to the Cape Colony of southern Africa to work as an assistant pharmacist in Cape Town, where he arrived in 1815, in order to make natural history collections for the Berlin Museum.Mearns, Barbara; & Mearns, Richard. (1988). ''Biographies of Birdwatchers. The lives of those commemorated in western palearctic bird names''. Academic Press: London. He died in isolation and poverty in Cape Town in Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
