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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AT THE INTERSECTION OF CHEMIS...

This volume  occasioned by the centenary of the Fritz Haber Institute  formerly the Institute
for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry  covers the institute's scientific and
institutional history from its founding until the present. The institute was among the earliest
established by the Kaiser Wilhelm Society  and its inauguration was one of the first steps in
the development of Berlin-Dahlem into a center for scientific research. Its establishment was
made possible by an endowment from Leopold Koppel  granted on the condition that Fritz Haber 
well-known for his discovery of a method to synthesize ammonia from its elements  be made its
director. The history of the institute has largely paralleled that of 20th-century Germany. It
undertook controversial weapons research during World War I  followed by a Golden Era during
the 1920s  in spite of financial hardships. Under the National Socialists it experienced a
purge of its scientific staff and a diversion of its research into the service of the new
regime  accompanied by a breakdown in its international relations. In the immediate aftermath
of World War II it suffered crippling material losses  from which it recovered slowly in the
post-war era. In 1953  shortly after taking the name of its founding director  the institute
joined the fledgling Max Planck Society. During the 1950s and 60s  the institute supported
diverse researches into the structure ofmatter and electron microscopy in a territorially
insular and politically precarious West-Berlin. In subsequent decades  as both Berlin and the
Max Planck Society underwent significant changes  the institute reorganized around a board of
coequal scientific directors and a renewed focus on the investigation of elementary processes
on surfaces and interfaces  topics of research that had been central to the work of Fritz Haber
and the first Golden Era of the institute.

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