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Carl von Linde
Carl Paul Gottfried Linde
(11 June 1842 – 16 November 1934) was a German scientist and engineer who discovered
a refrigeration cycle
and invented the first industrial-scale
air separation
and
gas liquefaction
processes. These breakthroughs laid the backbone for
the 1913 Nobel Prize in physics
. Linde was a member of scientific and engineering associations, including being on the board of trustees of the
Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt
and the
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
. Linde was also the founder of what is now known as
The Linde Group
, the world's largest industrial gases company, and ushered the creation of the
supply chain
of
industrial gases
as a profitable line of businesses. He was
knighted
in 1897 as
Ritter von Linde
.
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