Fritz Haber to Richard Willstaetter
Scope and Content Note
Fritz Haber’s correspondence with Richard Willstaetter (all photocopies), 89 letters, 15 postal cards, 2 telegrams, 1910-1934
Dates
- Creation: 1910-1934
Creator
- Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934 (Person)
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
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Use Restrictions
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Biographical Note
Born in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) on December 9, 1868, Haber was a chemist and professor of chemistry at the Karlsruhe Technical Institute from 1903 to 1911, when he was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie. Haber received the Nobel Prize in 1919 for his work on the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. He resigned his directorship in 1933 and died in Basel on January 29, 1934.
Extent
2 Folders
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Fritz Haber’s correspondence with Richard Willstaetter (all photocopies), 89 letters, 15 postal cards, 2 telegrams, 1910-1934
Subject
- Willstätter, Richard, 1872-1942 (Person)
Genre / Form
Occupation
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Papers of Fritz Haber to Richard Willstaetter: Correspondence, 1910-1934 AR 861
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2013
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
