A brief history of Nitrogen fixation

Resumo

Nitrogen furation has been a subject of great interest to chemists for the best part of a century. As a chemical problem it is possibly unique because the research has really been led by biologists for most of this time. Currently it is being studied by a wide range of scientists of many different stripes, and the interplay between them lends fascination to the topic. Even more, nitrogen futation has been used by humans for at least two thousand years even though the primitive agriculturalists could not have been aware of what was going on.