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

• Author: Johnson, Benjamin.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (273 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface by Gerhard Ertl -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I A Confluence of Factors -- 1 The Object of Investigation -- 2 The Scientification of Agriculture -- 3 Advances in Organic Chemistry, Catalysis, and the Chemical Industry -- 4 The Mystery of Ammonia Synthesis -- 5 Physical Chemistry: Uniting Two Branches of Science -- 6 The Scientific Breakthrough (1903-1908) -- 7 The Challenge of Technical Implementation -- 8 Reflections on Scientific Discovery and The Haze -- Part II The Scientific Breakthrough -- 9 The State of Ammonia Synthesis at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Arena for Discovery -- 10 Fritz Haber's Work and Thought as He Began Work on Ammonia Synthesis -- 11 The Scientific Publications on Ammonia Synthesis -- 11.1 Über die Bildung von Ammoniak aus den Elementen (On the Generation of Ammonia from the Elements) by Fritz Haber and Gabriel van Oordt, 1905 -- 11.1.1 Über die Berechnung chemischer Gleichgewichte aus thermischen Messungen (On the Calculation of Chemical Equilibrium from Thermal Measurements) by Walther Nernst, 1906 -- 11.1.2 Über das Ammoniak-Gleichgewicht (On Ammonia Equilibrium) by Fritz Haber and Robert Le Rossignol, 1907 -- 11.1.3 Über das Ammoniakgleichgewicht (On Ammonia Equilibrium) by Walther Nernst with Experiments from Friedrich Jost, 1907 -- 11.1.4 14th Meeting of the Bunsen Society, Hamburg, 1907 -- 11.1.5 Über das Ammoniakgleichgewicht (On Ammonia Equilibrium) by Friedrich Jost, 1908 -- 11.1.6 Bestimmung des Ammoniakgleichgewichts unter Druck (Determination of Ammonia Equilibrium Under Pressure) by Fritz Haber and Robert Le Rossignol, 1908 -- 12 Haber's Cooperation with BASF -- 13 The Role of Physical Chemistry as a Theory -- 14 Further Reflections on Scientific Discovery and The Haze -- Part III The Haze: A Theory for Breakthroughs in Science -- 15 Terminology.

16 Normal Science -- 17 The Structure of The Haze -- 18 Dynamic of The Haze -- 19 Between Science and Industry: The Stage of 10-100 -- 20 Risk and the Acceptance of Failure -- 21 The Haze: Interdependencies in Science -- 22 One Final Element -- A Approximations of Free Energy Fitting Functions -- B Theoretical Determinations of the Free Energy: Hermann von Helmholtz and Walther Nernst -- References -- Subject Index -- Places and People.