Scientist Research: Fritz Haber

Fritz Haber was born on December 9, 1868, in Prussia. His family is German Jewish and he was taught his early education in a gym where his father worked at the time. Haber was influenced by his father's job as an importer of natural dyes and pigments. Haber was a German physical chemist who won the 1918 Nobel Prize for his successful work on nitrogen fixation. Haber finally earned his doctorate after transitioning from school to school, he created the Haber-Bosch process which combined nitrogen and hydrogen to form ammonia, and he supervised the German poison gas program during World War I.
At the University of Berlin, in 1886, Haber began his study of chemistry. After transferring to many different colleges and even spending a year in the military, he earned his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1891. He earned this while working at the college with Liebermann on organic compounds. Haber was given the position of an assistant in the Department of Chemical and Fuel Technology at the Fridericiana Technische Hochschule. During his work as an …show more content…
He later changed into a physical chemist after working at the Karlsruhe. Since the school was heavily based on engineering, industry became the main theme of his work career. In the beginning, his work consisted of physical chemistry. This later led to the writing and publishing of his first book in 1896, Experimental Investigations on the Decomposition and Combustion of Hydrocarbons. His hard work and determination would later help in learning the chemistry behind petroleum. Another book, The Electrolytic Processes of Organic Chemistry, was written in a collaboration with Alexander Moser. His work on the glass electrode helped the later development of the pH meter. Haber also worked in thermodynamics of gas reactions. He later wrote a book called The Thermodynamics of Technical Gas Reactions, which was based on his