Fritz Haber Institute is one of the "sub" institutes of Max Planck Institute. Unless you are interested what they do, you probably have not heard of the institute. Since, I follow some of their research areas, I can say I know a some about the institute and in fact it would be an honor for me to work there one day in the future.
So I was really happy when I came across this paper about a month ago. It's a short history of the institute and the research within covering one hundred years. I am glad I read it because I was able to learn much more than I know about FHI. I did not know FHI had seven Nobel laureates for example.
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If you read the paper, you will learn how much the institute contributed to modern science especially in surface chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis and electron microscopy. I would like to highlight a few titles that were also related to FHI: gas masks, methane detector, allotropes of hydrogen, symmetry.
The fields of research explained by the paper are:
Gas-Phase Kinetics and Dynamics
Methane Detector
Haber-Born Cycle
Chemiluminescence
Combustion
Sttatistical Mechanics
The Franck-Hertz and the Compton Effects
Dispersion
Theoretical Chemistry
Molecular Beams
Physisorption
Colloid Chemistry
Electron Microscopy
Surface Science
[The] science research project of today is the temporary culmination of a very long, hard- fought struggle by a largely invisible community of our ancestors. Each of us may be standing on the shoulders of giants; more often we stand on the graves of our predecessors.
"In the words of the historian Fritz Stern, Haber' s Institute during the First World War became “ kind of forerunner of the Manhattan Project."
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