Word: haber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunster team of Eliot I. Snider '41 and Richard M. Haber '41 successfully took the negative side of the subject: "Resolved, That Harvard Should Establish Athletic Scholarships." Last night's favorable decision was the fourth for this undefeated team...
...scientific achievement most important to the Germany of World War I was only indirectly a military weapon, and has since been used far more in peace than in war. This was Fritz Haber's nitrogen-fixation process which enabled Germany to manufacture nitrates (for explosives) and other nitrogen compounds from thin air. Haber's name has been smirched in Nazi Germany...
...flourish only when there is peace and intellectual freedom. ... It is in this light that we publicly condemn the fascist position towards science. The racial theories which they advocate have been demolished time and again. We need only point to the work of Heinrich Hertz in physics, Fritz Haber and Richard Willstatter in chemistry, Ludwig Traube, Paul Ehrlich and August Wassermann in biology and medicine, all German Jews and all empirical [observational and experimental] scientists. The charge that theory leads to a crippling of experimental research is ... a denial of the whole history of modern physics. From Copernicus and Kepler...
...Vernon Raymond Haber of Pennsylvania State College seems to have first made the discovery that Epsom salt is poisonous to insects and has been spreading the news to other entomologists by word of mouth. Dr. Haber recommends that a spray of Epsom salt in water be used against Mexican bean beetles. J. H. Hawkins of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station advocates this Epsom salt spray against wheat wireworms. The Frings believe the spray "could be used safely on many vegetables and fruits...
...industrial chemist, Friedrich Bergius was born in what is now the Polish Corridor, became assistant to Fritz Haber who won a Nobel Prize for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Bergius himself was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1931, now lives at Heidel- berg in close touch with its university...