Industrially speaking it was Georges Claude and Paul Delorme who developed a process for liquefying air to separate the components at the 'Air Liquide Co.' [France, 1902]. The first drops of liquid air and creation of the company of the same name where fact.

[In 1902 Georges Claude and businessman Paul Delorme founded L'Air Liquide S.A. (Air Liquide) based on a method to liquify air that enabled large scale production of oxygen. Paul Delorme was the first president.]