Into the Oven
The Mixing Bowl
Filling The Pan
The Baker
Paperwork
Carl Bosch, encyclopedia brittanica, unknown
Fritz wanted fame. So much fame, that he tried his shot at making ammonia. Working with Carl Bosch, and others, Haber conducted many experiments, tirelessly slaving away at this near impossible task. Haber and Bosch would try endlessly, using different conductors, varying temperatures, and differing amounts of pressure.
"[Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process are more important to him than the completion. The creative process gives him more pleasure than the yield, the finished piece. Success is immaterial. "Doing it was wonderful." His work is nearly always uneconomical, with the wastefulness of the rich." -- Richard Willstater, fellow chemist.
The haber bosch process, Chemtalk, unkown
Osmium, ThoughtCO, unknown
After almost two-thousand experiments, Haber got a shipment of new conductors. One of these was a sheet of osmium. Using an osmium and uranium-based catalyst he finally got ammonia.
Haber ran upstairs gathering all the people he could, shouting ‘Come on down, there’s ammonia!” According to Hermann Staudinger, there was “about one cubic centimeter of ammonia.”
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