whose records show that it was awarded some time between 22 April 1921
and 28 May 1921. The same records show that Robert was a retired Fellow at
his death in 1976. Robert would have paid 5 guineas to transfer from
Associateship to Fellowship.
55. Kormos Barkan, op. cit. (note 51), p. 216.
56. See for example Kormos Barkan, op. cit. (note 51), and also One Hundred
Years of the Fritz Haber Institute. B. Friedrich, D. Hoffmann and J. James,
p. 8. This paper can be found at; http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/mp/
friedrich/PDFs/ACh-100-Article.pdf.
57. Kormos Barkan, op. cit. (note 51), p. 217.
58. The presentation speech along these lines was made on 10 December 1921
by Professor Gerard de Geer, President, RSAS.
59. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1920/nernst-lecture.
html.
60. Margit Szöllösi-Janze, Fritz Haber 1868–1934: Eine Biographie. C. H. Beck,
Munich, (1998), p. 486.
61. Carl Bosch suffered some remorse regarding this ‘oversight’, he therefore had
Haber elected to BASF’s supervisory body (the Aufsichtsrat) from June 1925
until May 1932 in a final act of atonement. See Szöllössi-Janze, op. cit. (note
60), p. 486.
62. Robert recalls in conversation with Jaenicke (Chap. 18), that at this time of
German hyperinflation, the cost of the rail journey was just tuppence!
63. Szöllössi-Janze, op. cit. (note 60), p. 812, her note no. 17 and personal
clarifications for me by email.
64. The World Power Conference still exists today as the World Energy Council.
65. Along with George Donnan Robert’s former tutor at UCL. Donnan, Harold
Hartley and William Pope were Britain’s WW1 ‘gas warriors’ (Charles,
op. cit. (note 43), p. 227) and former adversaries of Haber. Post war however,
the three made strenuous efforts to bring Haber back ‘into the fold’ especially
after Haber had been ousted by the Nazi regime in 1933. See Chap. 16.
66. Szöllössi-Janze, op. cit. (note 60), personal communication by email.
67. Clayton and Algar, op. cit. (note 11), p. 46. By the middle of 1920, a Patent
Department existed at Hammersmith but responsibility for all GEC patents
was soon centralized at the Laboratories. (Clayton and Algar, op. cit. (note
11), p. 401). The central patent office kept a patent index and a library, and
dealt with matters of licenses, amendments and patent applications. It also
kept a watching brief on possible infringements of existing GEC patents. By
1956 more than 4000 patents had been filed and for Robert at least, this
seems to be the main area in which he published.
68. If Luton had been chosen, Patterson would have demanded season tickets for
staff to attend scientific meetings in London such as the World Power
Conference. For Robert living in Harrow, Wembley happened to be particularly convenient.
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and 28 May 1921. The same records show that Robert was a retired Fellow at
his death in 1976. Robert would have paid 5 guineas to transfer from
Associateship to Fellowship.
55. Kormos Barkan, op. cit. (note 51), p. 216.
56. See for example Kormos Barkan, op. cit. (note 51), and also One Hundred
Years of the Fritz Haber Institute. B. Friedrich, D. Hoffmann and J. James,
p. 8. This paper can be found at; http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/mp/
friedrich/PDFs/ACh-100-Article.pdf.
57. Kormos Barkan, op. cit. (note 51), p. 217.
58. The presentation speech along these lines was made on 10 December 1921
by Professor Gerard de Geer, President, RSAS.
59. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1920/nernst-lecture.
html.
60. Margit Szöllösi-Janze, Fritz Haber 1868–1934: Eine Biographie. C. H. Beck,
Munich, (1998), p. 486.
61. Carl Bosch suffered some remorse regarding this ‘oversight’, he therefore had
Haber elected to BASF’s supervisory body (the Aufsichtsrat) from June 1925
until May 1932 in a final act of atonement. See Szöllössi-Janze, op. cit. (note
60), p. 486.
62. Robert recalls in conversation with Jaenicke (Chap. 18), that at this time of
German hyperinflation, the cost of the rail journey was just tuppence!
63. Szöllössi-Janze, op. cit. (note 60), p. 812, her note no. 17 and personal
clarifications for me by email.
64. The World Power Conference still exists today as the World Energy Council.
65. Along with George Donnan Robert’s former tutor at UCL. Donnan, Harold
Hartley and William Pope were Britain’s WW1 ‘gas warriors’ (Charles,
op. cit. (note 43), p. 227) and former adversaries of Haber. Post war however,
the three made strenuous efforts to bring Haber back ‘into the fold’ especially
after Haber had been ousted by the Nazi regime in 1933. See Chap. 16.
66. Szöllössi-Janze, op. cit. (note 60), personal communication by email.
67. Clayton and Algar, op. cit. (note 11), p. 46. By the middle of 1920, a Patent
Department existed at Hammersmith but responsibility for all GEC patents
was soon centralized at the Laboratories. (Clayton and Algar, op. cit. (note
11), p. 401). The central patent office kept a patent index and a library, and
dealt with matters of licenses, amendments and patent applications. It also
kept a watching brief on possible infringements of existing GEC patents. By
1956 more than 4000 patents had been filed and for Robert at least, this
seems to be the main area in which he published.
68. If Luton had been chosen, Patterson would have demanded season tickets for
staff to attend scientific meetings in London such as the World Power
Conference. For Robert living in Harrow, Wembley happened to be particularly convenient.
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