In 1931 Bergius won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work.

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Today the Bergius method lives on in the work being done in South Africa and Qatar to turn natural gas into diesel oil.

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But in 1913 one of its scientists, Friedrich Bergius, found a way to turn coal into a high-grade liquid fuel by heating it in the presence of hydrogen and a catalyst.

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