51. Testing Gaseous Mixtures, United States Patent Office, No. 830,225, Patented
04.09.1906.
52. From Jaenicke 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).
53. Courtesy of Dr. Rainer Brüning, Generallandesarchiv, Karlsruhe. Personal
communication by email, (O2 May 2011).
54. From Ralph C. Chirnside’s sensitive Obituary of Robert; R. C. Chirnside,
‘Robert Le Rossignol, 1884–1976’, Chemistry in Britain, 13, 269–271,
(1977). Chirnside was a long-time friend and colleague of Robert from their
time together at the GEC laboratories. The Obituary was based upon a
tape-recorded interview he conducted with Robert on 29 March 1976.
55. Courtesy of Dr Klaus Nippert, Archivist at K.I.T. Personal communication
by email, (19 April 2011).
56. Nowakanlage is still an area of Karlsruhe, but because much of the city was
reduced to rubble in the second world war it has been redeveloped. This
address was recorded in a number of the patents he and Haber applied for
over the next few years, suggesting that it was his permanent residence in
Karlsruhe.
57. UCL must have also offered Robert ample opportunity to learn the language.
Many staff such as Donnan and Ramsay were fluent and the presence of
German students such as Hahn and Sakur must have contributed enormously to the overall environment. Many of the important papers of the time
were also in German and students were expected to translate them. Even the
author of these lines remembers doing that in the late 1960s and early 1970s
with the help of Scientific German lectures and a German-English dictionary!
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04.09.1906.
52. From Jaenicke 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).
53. Courtesy of Dr. Rainer Brüning, Generallandesarchiv, Karlsruhe. Personal
communication by email, (O2 May 2011).
54. From Ralph C. Chirnside’s sensitive Obituary of Robert; R. C. Chirnside,
‘Robert Le Rossignol, 1884–1976’, Chemistry in Britain, 13, 269–271,
(1977). Chirnside was a long-time friend and colleague of Robert from their
time together at the GEC laboratories. The Obituary was based upon a
tape-recorded interview he conducted with Robert on 29 March 1976.
55. Courtesy of Dr Klaus Nippert, Archivist at K.I.T. Personal communication
by email, (19 April 2011).
56. Nowakanlage is still an area of Karlsruhe, but because much of the city was
reduced to rubble in the second world war it has been redeveloped. This
address was recorded in a number of the patents he and Haber applied for
over the next few years, suggesting that it was his permanent residence in
Karlsruhe.
57. UCL must have also offered Robert ample opportunity to learn the language.
Many staff such as Donnan and Ramsay were fluent and the presence of
German students such as Hahn and Sakur must have contributed enormously to the overall environment. Many of the important papers of the time
were also in German and students were expected to translate them. Even the
author of these lines remembers doing that in the late 1960s and early 1970s
with the help of Scientific German lectures and a German-English dictionary!
78
D. Sheppard