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Fritz Haber (1868-1934)

Discoveries and Contributions

Historical Context and Personal Life

  • Worked on the combustion and decomposition of Hydrocarbons
  • Worked on the electrolysis of salts
  • Studied energy loss of steam engine
  • Did research on the Bunsen flame
  • Worked on the fixation of nitrogen from the air, which won him a Nobel prize
  • Born on December 9, 1868 in Breslau, Germany
  • Son of Siegfried Haber
  • Studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg, the University of Berlin, and the Technical School at Charlottenburg.
  • Had two wives and 3 children
  • Lived through the First World War

Schluss

  • He died on 29 January 1934 in Basel, Switzerland

The Haber Process

Chart, Chem Guide, chemguide.co.uk, 11/10/2013, <http://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/equilibria/haberflow.gif>

"Fritz Haber - Biographical". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2013. Web. 23 Oct 2013. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1918/haber-bio.html>

Fritz Haber, catedraisdefe, 11/10/2013, <http://catedraisdefe.etsit.upm.es/wiki/images/a/ab/Fritz_Haber,_padre_de_la_guerra_qu%C3%ADmica..jpg>

Smil, Vaclav. Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2001. Print.

  • The process by which ammonia is synthesized

Interesting Facts!

  • Fritz Haber is actually credited with being the first person to synthesize MDMA (the active ingredient in Ecstasy and Molly)
  • His parents, Paula and Siegfried Haber, were first cousins

Presented by Greig Fields

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