The modern world is full of new ideas and inventions. Our society as a whole, has advanced more in the last century than it has in any other time period. Brilliant minds have privileged us with easier, faster, and overall more efficient versions of everything. Due to advances in science, these have all been made possible. A particular brilliant mind, known as Fritz Haber, is responsible for the synthesis of ammonia through nitrogen fixation, chemical warfare, the Born-Haber cycle, and many other important discoveries in the modern field of chemistry. Fritz Haber was born on December 9, 1868, into a prosperous Jewish family. He was the son of first cousins Siegfried and Paula Haber. Siegfried was a well-known merchant who founded his own company selling pharmaceuticals, dye pigments and paints. According to Stoltzenberg (2004), Siegfried wanted his son to apprentice at his company after he finished schooling. Instead he allowed Haber to pursue chemistry at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, after being convinced by his brother Hermann. After initially attending school in Berlin, Haber attended the
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In 1891, he completed his degree and graduated with his doctorate cum laude from the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. It was not until Haber started conducting research at Karlsruhe that his contributions to science were made. “It was at Karlsruhe that Haber accomplished the scientific work that made him famous. The ammonia synthesis was a triumph of imagination and technology” (Stoltzenberg, 2004). It was here that he and Carl Bosch synthesized ammonia in 1911. They called it the Haber-Bosch process; which is defined as the catalytic formation of ammonia from hydrogen and atmospheric nitrogen under conditions of high temperature and pressure. This simply means that the process allows people to extract nitrogen from the atmosphere in large
In 1891, he completed his degree and graduated with his doctorate cum laude from the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. It was not until Haber started conducting research at Karlsruhe that his contributions to science were made. “It was at Karlsruhe that Haber accomplished the scientific work that made him famous. The ammonia synthesis was a triumph of imagination and technology” (Stoltzenberg, 2004). It was here that he and Carl Bosch synthesized ammonia in 1911. They called it the Haber-Bosch process; which is defined as the catalytic formation of ammonia from hydrogen and atmospheric nitrogen under conditions of high temperature and pressure. This simply means that the process allows people to extract nitrogen from the atmosphere in large