Fritz haber born
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Fritz Haber
CHEMIST
1868 - 1934
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber (German: [ˈfʁɪt͡s ˈhaːbɐ] ; 9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934) 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Haber has received more than 3,763,966 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Fritz Haber is the 12th most popular chemist, the 15th most popular biography from Poland (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Chemist.
Fritz Haber is most famous for inventing a process to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. This process was important because it allow
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Fritz Haber (1868–1934)
Chemist
Fritz Haber was born to Paula and Siegfried Haber, a businessman and proprietor of a trading company for chemicals, on 9 December 1868 in Breslau, where he completed his schooling in 1886.
At the end of the year, he embarked on a degree in chemistry at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin before switching to the University of Heidelberg in the summer and returning to the Technical University of Berlin, where he completed a doctorate in 1891.
Further education and habilitation
After a series of apprenticeships in chemical factories, he moved to Zurich for a semester to further his education before joining his father's company briefly.
From the winter of 1892, he attended the University of Jena for one and a half years. As of 1894, he worked as an assistant at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, qualified as a professor in 1896 and was made an associate professor of physical chemistry in 1898 and a full professor in 1906.
Marriage and Nobel Prize
In 1901 he married Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to obtain a PhD in c
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Haber, Fritz
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Haber, Fritz — born Dec. 9, 1868, Breslau, Silesia, Prussia died Jan. 29, 1934, Basel, Switz. German physical chemist. After early research in electrochemistry and thermodynamics, he developed, with his brother in law Carl Bosch (1874–1940), the Haber Bosch… … Universalium
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