Carl von Linde

German engineer and scientist

Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde (11 June 1842 – 16 November 1934) was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered the refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes, which led to the first reliable and efficient compressed-ammonia refrigerator in 1876.²

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Born Jun 11, 1842, died Nov 16, 1934.¹

About

Linde was the founder of the company now known as Linde plc but formerly known (variously) as the Linde division of Union Carbide, Linde, Linde Air Products, Praxair, and others. This company is the world's largest producer of industrial gases and ushered in the creation of the global supply chain for industrial gases.

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. He was knighted in 1897 as Ritter von Linde.

From Wikipedia’s article on Carl von Linde, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Linde GroupFounder¹⁷

Early life and education

Date not recordedETH Zurich³
Date not recordedTechnical University of Munich³
Date not recordedUniversity of Zurich³

Early years

Born in Berndorf, Bavaria as the son of a German-born minister and a Swedish mother, he was expected to follow in his father's footsteps but took another direction entirely. Von Linde's family moved to Munich in 1854, and eight years later he started a course in engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, where his teachers included Rudolf Clausius, Gustav Zeuner and Franz Reuleaux.

In 1864, he was expelled before graduating for participating in a student protest, but Reuleaux found him a position as an apprentice at the Kottern cotton-spinning plant in Kempten. Linde stayed only a short time before moving first to Borsig in Berlin and then to the new Krauss locomotive factory in Munich, where he worked as head of the technical department. Von Linde married Helene Grimm in September 1866; their marriage lasted 53 years and they had six children.

In 1868 Linde learned of a new university opening in Munich (the Technische Hochschule) and immediately applied for a job as a lecturer; he was accepted—at the age of 26—for the position. He became a full professor of mechanical engineering in 1872, and set up an engineering lab where students such as Rudolf Diesel studied.

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Career

Occupation: entrepreneur, physicist, university teacher, engineer.¹⁰

1904 to 1905Board member, VDI – The Association of German Engineers⁹
Date not recordedWorked at Technical University of Munich⁴
Date not recordedWorked at Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt⁴
Date not recordedFounded KION Group⁵
Date not recordedFounded Linde Group⁶
Date not recordedFounded Linde⁷
Date not recordedFounded Praxair⁸

Personal life

BornJun 11, 1842, Berndorf¹¹
DiedNov 16, 1934, Munich¹²
CitizenshipGermany¹³

Awards

1922Wilhelm Exner Medal^{14 16}
1916Werner von Siemens Ring¹⁴
1914Elliott Cresson Medal^{14 15}
1907Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art¹⁴
1900honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)¹⁴
1897Grashof Commemorative Medal¹⁴
1897Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown¹⁴
Date not recordedPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order¹⁴
Date not recordedhonorary doctor of the Dresden University of Technology¹⁴
Date not recordedhonorary doctor of the University of Göttingen¹⁴
Date not recordedhonorary doctor of the Vienna Technical University¹⁴

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