pp. 482–483. This in turn translates to 8,257,143 kg ammonia yr
−1 and
royalties of *82,600 Marks. Readers can factor this figure into the discussion if they wish.
73. Personal communication by email, 01 August 2011. According to
Szöllözi-Janze, op. cit. (note 47), p. 482, Haber’s financial dealings are so
confusing that in the 1980s Adolf-Henning Frucht, grandson of Adolf von
Harnack who planned a biography about Haber, commissioned an audit
company to examine the files that were left. The results of the investigation
were inconclusive and so his financial affairs ‘remain unclear, even puzzling’.
74. Szöllözi-Janze, op. cit. (note 47), pp. 481–482.
75. Chapter 15. In May 1920 Haber and the BASF agreed an additional sum to
cover these years.
76. Gerd Hardach, The First World War, 1914–1918. History of the World
Economy in the Twentieth Century, University of California Press, (1977).
ISBN-10: 0520030605 and ISBN-13: 978-0520030602.
77. By 1920 Haber complained to the BASF about his tax liability and the
erosion of his wealth by the hyper-inflation that was beginning to set in. See
Chap. 15. He seemed to be content prior to that.
78. A likely route would have been to the Channel Islands via Switzerland,
avoiding UK income tax completely. However, this is pure conjecture on my
part. The Le Rossignols however had banking contacts within the family.
Edith was connected to the merchant bank ‘The Old Bank’ (Chap. 1) and
Bertie had been employed in the Capital and Counties bank in St Helier
prior to the war. There was also considerable banking experience in other
parts of the family who were well versed in international commerce. Alfred
for example, Augustin’s brother, was a merchant in Buenos Aires. But what
evidence we have also suggests that at least some of Robert’s wealth remained
in Germany after the war. See Chap. 15.
79. Nominations for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was then, as today, by
invitation only. The Nobel Committee for Chemistry sends confidential
forms to persons who are competent and qualified to nominate. The names
of the nominees and other information about the nominations cannot be
revealed until 50 years later.
80. The former often taught to illustrate gaseous equilibria and the latter
developed by Max Born and Haber in 1919 to correlate the lattice energies of
ionic solids to other state-based thermodynamic data.
81. The award of the Nobel Prize to Haber was discussed as early as 1910
however, probably after the meeting of the Scientific Union at Karlsruhe,
(Chap. 10) when Friedrich Schmidt-Ott from the Ministry of Education
travelled to Sweden to consult with Svante Arrhenius on the appointment of
the Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical and
Electro-chemistry. See Dietrich Stoltzenberg, Fritz Haber. Chemist, Noble
14 Robert’s War 1914–1918
315
−1 and
royalties of *82,600 Marks. Readers can factor this figure into the discussion if they wish.
73. Personal communication by email, 01 August 2011. According to
Szöllözi-Janze, op. cit. (note 47), p. 482, Haber’s financial dealings are so
confusing that in the 1980s Adolf-Henning Frucht, grandson of Adolf von
Harnack who planned a biography about Haber, commissioned an audit
company to examine the files that were left. The results of the investigation
were inconclusive and so his financial affairs ‘remain unclear, even puzzling’.
74. Szöllözi-Janze, op. cit. (note 47), pp. 481–482.
75. Chapter 15. In May 1920 Haber and the BASF agreed an additional sum to
cover these years.
76. Gerd Hardach, The First World War, 1914–1918. History of the World
Economy in the Twentieth Century, University of California Press, (1977).
ISBN-10: 0520030605 and ISBN-13: 978-0520030602.
77. By 1920 Haber complained to the BASF about his tax liability and the
erosion of his wealth by the hyper-inflation that was beginning to set in. See
Chap. 15. He seemed to be content prior to that.
78. A likely route would have been to the Channel Islands via Switzerland,
avoiding UK income tax completely. However, this is pure conjecture on my
part. The Le Rossignols however had banking contacts within the family.
Edith was connected to the merchant bank ‘The Old Bank’ (Chap. 1) and
Bertie had been employed in the Capital and Counties bank in St Helier
prior to the war. There was also considerable banking experience in other
parts of the family who were well versed in international commerce. Alfred
for example, Augustin’s brother, was a merchant in Buenos Aires. But what
evidence we have also suggests that at least some of Robert’s wealth remained
in Germany after the war. See Chap. 15.
79. Nominations for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was then, as today, by
invitation only. The Nobel Committee for Chemistry sends confidential
forms to persons who are competent and qualified to nominate. The names
of the nominees and other information about the nominations cannot be
revealed until 50 years later.
80. The former often taught to illustrate gaseous equilibria and the latter
developed by Max Born and Haber in 1919 to correlate the lattice energies of
ionic solids to other state-based thermodynamic data.
81. The award of the Nobel Prize to Haber was discussed as early as 1910
however, probably after the meeting of the Scientific Union at Karlsruhe,
(Chap. 10) when Friedrich Schmidt-Ott from the Ministry of Education
travelled to Sweden to consult with Svante Arrhenius on the appointment of
the Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical and
Electro-chemistry. See Dietrich Stoltzenberg, Fritz Haber. Chemist, Noble
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