Contents
Part I The Story of the Discovery of ‘Fixation’
1 Robert Le Rossignol
3
1.1
Introduction
3
1.2
Early Years and School Days
4
1.3
University College London and Matriculation
14
1.4
Austen Clement
21
1.5
Postgraduate Studies
25
1.6
And Finally … Controversy at UCL
28
2 Fritz Haber and Karlsruhe
37
2.1
Introduction
37
2.2
Young Fritz Jakob
39
2.3
His University Years
41
2.4
Takin’ Care of Business
44
2.5
Jena, First Steps on the Academic Ladder
45
2.6
On Coming to Karlsruhe
47
2.7
Hans Luggin and Electrochemistry
49
2.8
Clara Immerwahr
51
2.9
Haber, the Eclectic Electrochemist
53
2.10 The Margulies Brothers
54
2.11 Haber, Thermodynamics and the ‘Heat Theorem’
58
2.12 Professor Fritz Haber
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