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Haber, Fritz (1868-1934)

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Place : Germany Subject : biography, chemistry German chemist who made contributions to physical chemistry and electrochemistry, but who is best remembered for the Haber process, a method of synthesizing ammonia by the direct catalytic combination of nitrogen and hydrogen. For this outstanding achievement he was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (presented in 1919). Haber was born on 9 December 1868 in Bresslau, Silesia (now Wrocław, Poland), the son of a dye manufacturer. He was educated at the local school and at the universities of Berlin (under August von Hofmann ) and Heidelberg (where he was a student of Robert Bunsen ). He completed his undergraduate studies at the Technische Hochschule at Charlottenburg, where he carried out his first research in organic chemistry. After spending some time working for three chemical companies, he briefly entered his father's business, but after only a few months Haber returned to organic chemistry research at Jena. He then obtained a…
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From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : Germany Subject : biography, chemistry German chemist who made contributions to physical chemistry and electrochemistry, but who is best remembered for the Haber process, a method of synthesizing ammonia by the direct catalytic combination of nitrogen and hydrogen. For this outstanding…
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From Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary
Born in Breslau, Germany, Haber's great contribution to chemistry, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1918, was his development (with Bosch) of a workable method for synthesizing ammonia by the water–gas reaction from hot coke, air, and steam; the gas mixture obtained includes nitrogen from…
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The manufacturing process for ➤ ammonia , NH 3 , which is synthesized from nitrogen and hydrogen. Its main feature is the use of high pressure, as the equilibrium produces only two moles of ammonia gas for every three moles of hydrogen gas and one mole of nitrogen gas. According to ➤ Le Chatelier's…
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English lawyer, statesman, and essayist Although there is a most intimate connection, and almost an identity between the ways of human power and human knowledge, yet, on account of the pernicious and inveterate habit of dwelling upon abstractions, it is by far the safest method to commence and build…
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