Fritz Haber (1868-1934)

Awarded the Prize “for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements.”

German physical chemist. Haber was born on December 9, 1868 at Breslau, now Wroclaw in Pol. He was educated at Berlin, Heidelberg, Charlottenburg, Jena. In 1891 he gained his doctorate at Berlin Institute of Technology. In 1906 he was appointed as Professor at the Technical Institute of Karlsruhe. He moved to Berlin in 1911 to become Director of the Institute for Physical Electrochemistry at Berlin-Dahlem. In 1933 he went to Engl, where he worked at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Haber died on January 29, 1934 at Basle, Switzerl.