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Friedrich
[free-drik;; German free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪk;; German ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1884–1949, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1931.
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Friedrich (Karl Rudolph) (ˈfriːdrɪç). 1884– 1949, German chemist, who invented a process for producing oil by high-pressure hydrogenation of coal: Nobel prize for chemistry 1931
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