Making Ammonia Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Nature of Scientific Discovery /

This Open Access book discusses the progress of science and the transfer of scientific knowledge to technological application. It also identifies the factors necessary to achieve this progress. Based on a case study of the physical chemist Fritz Haber's discovery of ammonia synthesis between 19...

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Main Author: Johnson, Benjamin (Author)
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
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505 0 |a Part I: A Confluence of Factors -- Chapter 1. The Object of Investigation -- Chapter 2. The Scientification of Agriculture -- Chapter 3. Advances in Organic Chemistry, Catalysis, and the Chemical Industry -- Chapter 4. The Mystery of Ammonia Synthesis -- Chapter 5. Physical Chemistry: Uniting Two Branches of Science -- Chapter 6. The Scientific Breakthrough (1903-1908) -- Chapter 7. The Challenge of Technical Implementation -- Chapter 8. Reflections on Scientific Discovery and The Haze -- Part II: The Scientific Breakthrough -- Chapter 9. The State of Ammonia Synthesis at the turn of the Twentieth Century: The Arena for Discovery -- Chapter 10. Fritz Haber's Work and Thought as He Began Work on Ammonia Synthesis -- Chapter 11. The Scientific Publications on Ammonia Synthesis -- Chapter 12. Haber's Cooperation with BASF -- Chapter 13. The Role of Physical Chemistry as a Theory -- Chapter 14. Further Reflections on Scientific Discovery and The Haze -- Appendix A. Approximations of Free Energy Fitting Functions -- Appendix B. Theoretical Determinations of the Free Energy: Hermann von Helmholtz and Walther Nernst -- Part III: The Haze -- Chapter 15. Terminology -- Chapter 16. Normal Science -- Chapter 17. The Structure of The Haze -- Chapter 18. Dynamic of The Haze -- Chapter 19. Between Science and Industry: The Stage of 10-100 -- Chapter 20. Risk and the Acceptance of Failure -- Chapter 21. The Haze: Interdependencies in Science -- Chapter 22. One Final Element. 
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