Fritz Haber (1868

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Biography

Fritz Jakob Haber was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. This invention is important for the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives. It is estimated that a third of annual global food production uses ammonia from the Haber–Bosch process, and that this food supports nearly half the world's population. For this work, Haber has been called one of the most important scientists and industrial chemists in human history. Haber also, along with Max Born, proposed the Born–Haber cycle as a method for evaluating the lattice energy of an ionic solid.

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The story of Fritz Haber, told in moments.

1909 Event

Synthesized ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen. The Haber process would eventually feed billions. Half the nitrogen in your body passed through this reaction.

Half the nitrogen in every human body came through your process -- does that feel like redemption? Did you know what you'd done?

1915 Event

Personally supervised the first large-scale chlorine gas attack at Ypres. 5,000 Allied soldiers died. His wife Clara, also a chemist, shot herself with his military pistol ten days later.

How do you personally supervise a gas attack and go home to your wife? Did Clara's suicide change anything in you?

1918 Event

Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ammonia synthesis. Allied scientists boycotted the ceremony. They called him a war criminal.

What did it feel like accepting a Nobel while scientists called you a war criminal? Was the boycott deserved?

Artifacts (15)

Aus Leben und Beruf: Aufsätƶe · Reden · Vorträge

Diese Sammlung von Aufsatzen, Reden und V ortragen setzt eine altere fort, die unter dem Titel "Flinf Vortrage" vor drei Jahren im gleichen Verlage erschienen ist. Die einzelnen Stucke, von denen...

1927

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Practical Results of the Theoretical Development of Chemistry

An Address On The Occasion Of The Centenary Celebration Of The Founding Of The Franklin Institute.

2013

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Thermodynamics of Technical Gas-Reactions: Seven Lectures

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains...

2015

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Thermodynamik Technischer Gasreaktionen: Sieben Vorlesungen

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of...

2022

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easily the most ambitious project of his career

op (Celine Dion), street rap (Nas and Jay-Z) to Blues ("Suicide"). Dave Hoekstra of the Los Angeles Times described the album as "easily the most ambitious project of his career". In the summer of...

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Kelly reshapes his personal turmoil to artistic benefit

lly's self-titled album "R. Kelly" for VIBE. Dyson described Kelly's growth from the 12 Play album: "Kelly reshapes his personal turmoil to artistic benefit" and noted that Kelly is "reborn before our...

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Die Chemie im Kriege: Fünf Vorträge (1920-1923) über Giftgas, Sprengstoff und Kunstdünger im Ersten Weltkrieg

Fritz Haber erhielt 1919 den Chemie-Nobelpreis für ein Verfahren, das die industrielle Produktion von Kunstdünger ermöglichte. Dass Haber auch chemische Waffen für das deutsche Militär entwickelt...

2020

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The reigning king of pop-soul sex talks a lot tougher than Barry White, the fath...

parture from salacious bedroom songs to embracing vulnerability. New York Times contributor Stephen Holden described Kelly as "The reigning king of pop-soul sex talks a lot tougher than Barry White,...

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I love basketball enough to not totally let go of my music, but just put it to t...

l with the Atlantic City Seagulls of the USBL. He wore the number 12 in honor of his album 12 Play. Kelly said "I love basketball enough to not totally let go of my music, but just put it to the side...

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And if Jay and Kelly can put their egos to the side long enough to wrap up and p...

that he hoped the collaboration represents "more unity for black people on a whole". MTV's Shaheem Reid wrote: "And if Jay and Kelly can put their egos to the side long enough to wrap up and promote...

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Kelly knows how to take proven formulas and funnel them through his own stylisti...

ere written, arranged, and produced by Kelly. AllMusic's Jason Birchmeier gave TP-2.com 4 stars and stated: "Kelly knows how to take proven formulas and funnel them through his own stylistic...

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Grundriss der technischen Elektrochemie auf theoretischer Grundlage

1898

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Thermodynamik technischer Gasreaktionen: Sieben Vorlesungen

1905

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Thermodynamics of Technical Gas-reactions: Seven Lectures

1908

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The Nitrogen Problem

1966

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