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One Hundred Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics - The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society 1911-2011 (Hardcover)
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One Hundred Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics - The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society 1911-2011 (Hardcover)
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This volume, occasioned by the centenary of the Fritz Haber
Institute, formerly the Institute for Physical Chemistry and
Electrochemistry, covers the institute's scientific and
institutional history from its founding until the present. The
institute was among the earliest established by the Kaiser Wilhelm
Society, and its inauguration was one of the first steps in the
development of Berlin-Dahlem into a center for scientific research.
Its establishment was made possible by an endowment from Leopold
Koppel, granted on the condition that Fritz Haber, well-known for
his discovery of a method to synthesize ammonia from its elements,
be made its director. The history of the institute has largely
paralleled that of 20th-century Germany. It undertook controversial
weapons research during World War I, followed by a "Golden Era"
during the 1920s, in spite of financial hardships. Under the
National Socialists it experienced a purge of its scientific staff
and a diversion of its research into the service of the new regime,
accompanied by a breakdown in its international relations. In the
immediate aftermath of World War II it suffered crippling material
losses, from which it recovered slowly in the post-war era. In
1953, shortly after taking the name of its founding director, the
institute joined the fledgling Max Planck Society. During the 1950s
and 60s, the institute supported diverse researches into the
structure of matter and electron microscopy in a territorially
insular and politically precarious West-Berlin. In subsequent
decades, as both Berlin and the Max Planck Society underwent
significant changes, the institute reorganized around a board of
coequal scientific directors and a renewed focus on the
investigation of elementary processes on surfaces and interfaces,
topics of research that had been central to the work of Fritz Haber
and the first "Golden Era" of the institute.
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