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One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Bretislav Friedrich,... One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Bretislav Friedrich, Dieter Hoffmann, Jurgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz, Martin Wolf
R3,206 Discovery Miles 32 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass destruction, marks a turning point in world history. The preparation as well as the execution of the gas attack was orchestrated by Fritz Haber, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem. During World War I, Haber transformed his research institute into a center for the development of chemical weapons (and of the means of protection against them). Bretislav Friedrich and Martin Wolf (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, the successor institution of Haber's institute) together with Dieter Hoffmann, Jurgen Renn, and Florian Schmaltz (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) organized an international symposium to commemorate the centenary of the infamous chemical attack. The symposium examined crucial facets of chemical warfare from the first research on and deployment of chemical weapons in WWI to the development and use of chemical warfare during the century hence. The focus was on scientific, ethical, legal, and political issues of chemical weapons research and deployment - including the issue of dual use - as well as the ongoing effort to control the possession of chemical weapons and to ultimately achieve their elimination. The volume consists of papers presented at the symposium and supplemented by additional articles that together cover key aspects of chemical warfare from 22 April 1915 until the summer of 2015.

One Hundred Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics - The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society 1911-2011... One Hundred Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics - The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society 1911-2011 (Hardcover)
Jeremiah James, Thomas Steinhauser, Dieter Hoffmann, Bretislav Friedrich
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry - From Otto Stern's Pioneering Exploits to Present-Day Feats (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry - From Otto Stern's Pioneering Exploits to Present-Day Feats (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Bretislav Friedrich, Horst Schmidt-Boecking
R1,857 Discovery Miles 18 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This Open Access book gives a comprehensive account of both the history and current achievements of molecular beam research. In 1919, Otto Stern launched the revolutionary molecular beam technique. This technique made it possible to send atoms and molecules with well-defined momentum through vacuum and to measure with high accuracy the deflections they underwent when acted upon by transversal forces. These measurements revealed unforeseen quantum properties of nuclei, atoms, and molecules that became the basis for our current understanding of quantum matter. This volume shows that many key areas of modern physics and chemistry owe their beginnings to the seminal molecular beam work of Otto Stern and his school. Written by internationally recognized experts, the contributions in this volume will help experienced researchers and incoming graduate students alike to keep abreast of current developments in molecular beam research as well as to appreciate the history and evolution of this powerful method and the knowledge it reveals.

Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry - From Otto Stern's Pioneering Exploits to Present-Day Feats (Paperback):... Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry - From Otto Stern's Pioneering Exploits to Present-Day Feats (Paperback)
Bretislav Friedrich, Horst Schmidt-Boecking
R1,548 Discovery Miles 15 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hundert Jahre an der Schnittstelle von Chemie und Physik (German, Hardcover): Thomas Steinhauser, Jeremiah James, Dieter... Hundert Jahre an der Schnittstelle von Chemie und Physik (German, Hardcover)
Thomas Steinhauser, Jeremiah James, Dieter Hoffmann, Bretislav Friedrich
R3,936 Discovery Miles 39 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 in 1911 as one the earliest institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, through the renaming for its founding director in 1952 and joining of the Max Planck Society, until the present. The institute's pace-setting research in physical chemistry and chemical physics has been shaped by seven Nobel Laureates.

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