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Fritz Haber was a German chemist who is known for receiving the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work related to nitrogen fixation.

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Fritz Haber was a German chemist who is known for receiving the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work related to nitrogen fixation.

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EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

  • Fritz Haber was born on December 9, 1868, in Breslau (which is now known as Wrocław, Poland) in Prussia.
  • Fritz was the son of Paula Haber and Siegfried Haber, who were first cousins that got married despite the opposition of their families.
  • Siegfried was a popular town merchant who established his own business related to dye pigments, paints, and pharmaceuticals.
  • Paula, on the other hand, had a difficult pregnancy and died three weeks after giving birth to Fritz.
  • Siegfried got married again, this time to Hedwig Hamburger.
  • Siegfried and Hedwig had three daughters, named Else, Helene, and Frieda.
  • At the age of 11, Fritz attended St. Elizabeth classical school.
  • After a while, Fritz went back to Berlin where he attended the Technical College of Charlottenburg, which is now known as the Technical University of Berlin.
  • In 1889, Fritz left the university to do the mandatory year of voluntary service in the Sixth Field Artillery Regiment.
  • After completing his service, Fritz returned to the university where he became a student under the guidance of Carl Liebermann. During this time, Fritz was also attending lectures held by Otto Witt about the chemical technology of dyes.
  • In May 1891, Fritz received his doctorate from Friedrich Wilhelm University.

CAREER

  • Fritz worked for his father’s dye company for a while, but later on decided to pursue an academic career.
  • At the University of Jena, Fritz worked as an assistant to Ludwig Knorr.
  • In 1894, Fritz became Hans Bunte’s assistant.
  • Under the guidance of Bunte, Fritz studied the thermal decomposition of hydrocarbons and was able to come up with the analysis that the thermal stability of the bond of carbon-carbon is greater than the thermal stability of the carbon-hydrogen in aromatic compounds and is smaller than in aliphatic compounds.
  • In Bunte’s institute, Fritz became a Privatdozent where he took on the role of teaching duties related to the scope of dye technology.
  • From 1894 to 1911, Fritz stayed at the University of Karlsruhe where he was able to contribute to a lot of areas.
  • Fritz and Friedrich Bran were able to explain the steps in textile printing processes that Adolf Holz developed.
  • Fritz, with the guidance of Carl Engler, was able to come up with the explanation of autoxidation using electrochemical terms, wherein he was able to differentiate dry autoxidation and wet autoxidation.
  • Fritz was also able to come up with the theoretical basis for measuring electrolytic potentials and glass electrodes.
  • Fritz also studied the passivity of metals that are not rare and how electric current affects the corrosion of metals.
  • During this time, Fritz was also able to publish a book about the thermodynamics of technical gas-reactions.

NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

  • While at the Karlsruhe, Fritz was able to invent the Haber-Bosch process alongside his assistant Robert Le Rossignol.
  • The Haber-Bosch process is a catalytic formation of ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen and hydrogen while under the conditions of high temperature and pressure.
  • To further build up the process of ammonia production, Fritz turned to Carl Bosch and they were able to create large-scale production of ammonia.
  • Production of ammonia in large quantities helped in the production of much larger quantities of nitrogen-based fertilizers, which in turn resulted in a much greater agricultural yield, which prevented billions of people from dying due to starvation.
  • Fritz later on received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work of his.
  • During this time, Fritz was also actively working on his studies related to combustion reactions, separating gold from sea water, effects of adsorption, and electrochemistry.

CHEMICAL WARFARE

  • During World War I, Fritz worked on meeting the wartime demands of Germany for chemical products and synthetic alternatives.
  • Fritz worked alongside Wilhelm Ostwald, a German chemist, and they were able to integrate the process of ammonia oxidation and synthesis of nitrates and to the creation of explosives.
  • Fritz later on proposed the usage of chlorine gas as a chemical weapon due to the demands of Germany for tear gases and other chemical irritants.
  • Fritz got criticized severely for his involvement in the gas-warfare program.
  • After the war, Fritz got heavily involved in administrative responsibilities and in several international scientific organizations.
  • In 1919, Fritz proposed a graphical method to calculate the energies coming from ionic crystals, which became known as the Born-Haber cycle.

PERSONAL LIFE

  • Fritz married Clara Immerwahr on August 3, 1901 and had a son named Hermann.
  • After Clara’s death, Fritz remarried to Charlotte Nathan on October 25, 1917 in Berlin. The two had two children named Eva-Charlotte and Ludwig-Fritz.
  • At the age of 65, Fritz died due to heart failure on January 29, 1934.

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