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 (auth)
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Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2022
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