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

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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)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
Subjects:
Science > History.
Physical chemistry.
History of Science.
Physical Chemistry.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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