Fitz Haber was born on December 9 1868 in Breslau now Wroclaw Prussia now Poland He was the son of Siegfried and Paula Haber Air is mostly nitrogen but plants can only utilize nitrogen as fertilizer when it is part of chemical compounds During 1913 Fri...
Walther Hermann Nernst received his Nobel Prize one year later in 1921 During the selection process in 1920 the Nobel Committee for Chemistry decided that none of the year 39 s nominations met the criteria as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel According to the...
Otto Hahn was born on March 8 1879 at Frankfurt-on-the-Main Germany Otto Hahn was awarded the Chemistry Nobel Prize quot for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei quot Otto Hahn is known as the Father of Nuclear Chemistry The prize winning specta...
George de Hevesy was born on August 1 1885 in Budapest Hungary After matriculation he studied at Budapest University and Berlin Technical University and his doctorate was awarded by the University of Freiburg in 1908 He worked with Professor Fritz Haber w...