Notes
1. Recollections of Max Meyer and Hermann Staudinger at the time, recorded
by Johannes Jaenicke in the late 1950s, (notes 34 and 35).
2. Patrick Coffey, Cathedrals of Science. Oxford University Press, (2008). p. 89.
3. Margit Szöllösi-Janze, Fritz Haber 1868–1934: Eine Biographie. C. H. Beck,
Munich, (1998), p. 176.
4. See for example, Daniel Charles, Between Genius and Genocide, Jonathan
Cape, London, (2005), p. 87.
5. Dietrich Stoltzenberg, Fritz Haber. Chemist, Noble Laureate, German, Jew.
Chemical Heritage Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (2004), p. 63.
6. Contained in Joh. Jaenicke’s and Le Rossignol’s letters and the transcript of
their conversation on 16 September 1959 held at the Max Planck
Gesellschaft, Archiv der MPG, Va. Abt., Rep. 0005, Fritz Haber. Haber
Sammlung von Joh. Jaenicke. Nr. 253 (Jaenicke’s letters) and Nr. 1496
(conversation transcript).
7. Ralph C. Chirnside’s Obituary of Robert appeared in; R. C. Chirnside,
‘Robert Le Rossignol, 1884–1976’, Chemistry in Britain, 13, 269–271,
(1977). The Obituary was based upon a tape-recorded interview he conducted with Robert on 29 March 1976. A transcript of the conversation
remains with the family and was made available to this author.
8. Thomas Hager, The Alchemy of Air, Three River Press, New York, (2008).
ISBN 978-0-307-35179-1.
9. At the time, the T. H. Karlsruhe was only allowed to award a doctorate for
engineering, but the BASF would never have permitted such a public
examination of Le Rossignol’s work anyway. In later years, Haber’s refinement of his theoretical work—published in ‘Seven Communications’
(Chap. 12)—was used by Haber’s co-authors in their dissertations. See
Stoltzenberg, op. cit. (note 5), p. 93, and his reference no. 40. See also
Szöllössi-Janze, op. cit. (note 3), p. 866 and her references for publications
between 1914 and 1915.
10. R. Le Rossignol, ‘Zur Geschichte der Herstellung des synthetischen
Ammoniaks’, (The history of the manufacture of synthetic ammonia),
Naturwissenschaften, 16, 50, 1070–1071, (December 1928).
11. This was probably just a ‘typo’. Even in his sixties Robert was perfectly
capable of recalling important dates. For example, see his visit to the ‘Ramsay
Exhibition’ in 1952, (Chap. 18).
12. Fritz Haber, Nobel Lecture 2 June 1920; ‘Fritz Haber - Nobel Lecture: The
Synthesis of Ammonia from Its Elements’. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB
2014. Web. 9 March 2016. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_
prizes/chemistry/laureates/1918/haber-lecture.html.
13. See Chaps. 12 and 15.
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1. Recollections of Max Meyer and Hermann Staudinger at the time, recorded
by Johannes Jaenicke in the late 1950s, (notes 34 and 35).
2. Patrick Coffey, Cathedrals of Science. Oxford University Press, (2008). p. 89.
3. Margit Szöllösi-Janze, Fritz Haber 1868–1934: Eine Biographie. C. H. Beck,
Munich, (1998), p. 176.
4. See for example, Daniel Charles, Between Genius and Genocide, Jonathan
Cape, London, (2005), p. 87.
5. Dietrich Stoltzenberg, Fritz Haber. Chemist, Noble Laureate, German, Jew.
Chemical Heritage Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (2004), p. 63.
6. Contained in Joh. Jaenicke’s and Le Rossignol’s letters and the transcript of
their conversation on 16 September 1959 held at the Max Planck
Gesellschaft, Archiv der MPG, Va. Abt., Rep. 0005, Fritz Haber. Haber
Sammlung von Joh. Jaenicke. Nr. 253 (Jaenicke’s letters) and Nr. 1496
(conversation transcript).
7. Ralph C. Chirnside’s Obituary of Robert appeared in; R. C. Chirnside,
‘Robert Le Rossignol, 1884–1976’, Chemistry in Britain, 13, 269–271,
(1977). The Obituary was based upon a tape-recorded interview he conducted with Robert on 29 March 1976. A transcript of the conversation
remains with the family and was made available to this author.
8. Thomas Hager, The Alchemy of Air, Three River Press, New York, (2008).
ISBN 978-0-307-35179-1.
9. At the time, the T. H. Karlsruhe was only allowed to award a doctorate for
engineering, but the BASF would never have permitted such a public
examination of Le Rossignol’s work anyway. In later years, Haber’s refinement of his theoretical work—published in ‘Seven Communications’
(Chap. 12)—was used by Haber’s co-authors in their dissertations. See
Stoltzenberg, op. cit. (note 5), p. 93, and his reference no. 40. See also
Szöllössi-Janze, op. cit. (note 3), p. 866 and her references for publications
between 1914 and 1915.
10. R. Le Rossignol, ‘Zur Geschichte der Herstellung des synthetischen
Ammoniaks’, (The history of the manufacture of synthetic ammonia),
Naturwissenschaften, 16, 50, 1070–1071, (December 1928).
11. This was probably just a ‘typo’. Even in his sixties Robert was perfectly
capable of recalling important dates. For example, see his visit to the ‘Ramsay
Exhibition’ in 1952, (Chap. 18).
12. Fritz Haber, Nobel Lecture 2 June 1920; ‘Fritz Haber - Nobel Lecture: The
Synthesis of Ammonia from Its Elements’. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB
2014. Web. 9 March 2016. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_
prizes/chemistry/laureates/1918/haber-lecture.html.
13. See Chaps. 12 and 15.
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