PHYS 199M Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chaim Weizmann, Fritz Haber, Weizmann Institute Of Science
18 Nov 2016
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During wwi, it became obvious that technology and science were critical in warfare: taxi cabs, submarines, aircraft, acetone. Haber also led development of poison gas: british, first president of israel, founded weizmann institute, biologist who discovered how to use bacteria fermentation to produce acetone, father of industrial fermentation . Fritz haber: german chemist, ammonia synthesis. Won the nobel prize: known as father of chemical warfare for developing poison gases such as mustard gas, director of hahn, franck, hertz in chemical warfare unit. Meanwhile in copenhagen: neils bohr"s stature continued to grow, allowing him to obtain funding for the neils bohr. Schrodinger based on de broglie"s wave-particle duality. Heisenberg, based on focusing only on what is measurable. Developed at the same time, seemed different but were the same. Schrodinger: austrian, showed a wave equation gave correct energies for hydrogen, talked about the wave-particle duality. Copenhagen: tried to figure out spectral lines of hydrogen, thought about observables.
