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Einstein's Gift is a 2003 play written by Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen and published in 2003 by Playwrights Canada Press.Through the recollections of Albert Einstein, the play focuses on the life and career of German chemist Dr. Fritz Haber, [1] who helped improve living conditions with his work on nitrogen fixation.
Fritz Haber (German: ... Albert Einstein, his longtime friend, eulogized Haber with the following words: "Haber's life was the tragedy of the German Jew – the ...
It is now the Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG, named after Fritz Haber, who was the director 1911-1933. KWI for Physics, founded 1917 in Berlin. Albert Einstein was the director 1917-1933; in 1922, Max von Laue became deputy director and took over administrative duties from
Many notable German scientists resided or worked there, including Nobel Prize winners Fritz Haber, Otto Hahn and Albert Einstein. After the Nazis' seizure of power in 1933 the House fell under their influence, for example becoming the seat of the Reichsfilmarchiv.
The founding of the institute traces back to 1914, as an idea from Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, Max Planck, Emil Warburg, Heinrich Rubens. On October 1, 1917, the institute was officially founded in Berlin as Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik (KWIP, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics) with Albert Einstein as the first head director. [1]
The KWG was one of the world's leading research organizations; its board of directors included scientists like Walther Bothe, Peter Debye, Albert Einstein, and Fritz Haber. In 1946, Otto Hahn assumed the position of president of KWG, and in 1948, the society was renamed the Max Planck Society (MPG) after its former president (1930–37) Max ...
That included 55 letters that Einstein wrote to his eventual first wife, Mileva Marić, dated from 1989 and 1903 and which make up almost half of all of the renowned physicist’s correspondence ...
Fritz Haber, developed the Haber process, Nobel Prize (1918) [46] Walter Heitler, chemist [45] Arthur Korn, physicist [47] Ernst Ising, statistical mechanics [48] Albert Ladenburg, chemist [49] Fritz London, quantum mechanics [50] Leonard Mandel, quantum optics [51] Kurt Mendelssohn, German-born British medical physicist [52]