Luigi Casale
Luigi Casale (1882-1927)
1927 Obituary[1]
The Late Dr. Casale — Dr. Luigi Casale, whose recent death, at forty-five years of age, we regret to have to record was connected with the nitrogen-fixation industry, and his ammonia process was mentioned on page 594 of our issue of May 8, 1925, at which date he was in this country. He was born at Langosco in Italy in 1882, was trained at the University of Turin, where he took his degree in 1909. He went to Berlin to study under Nernst for some time after having been assistant in the University of Turin, to which he returned as lecturer in 1913. When the war broke out he was professor in Naples, and he was engaged in the manufacture of poison gases. He had to give up this work, which affected his health, and he took up the manufacture of synthetic ammonia in 1917, while still in the Italian Army service. The Ammonia Casale Company was established in 1921. The company developed rapidly after 1923, and is said to have plants in operation or under construction in fifteen countries. He erected plants of single units of 20 tons daily capacity, and endeavoured to utilise the off-peak power of hydroelectric power stations.