Friedrich, Walther

For an analysis of the OCV of batteries, the notion of electrode potential was of prime importance. In 1883, Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932 Nobel prize, 1909) gave a clear description of this notion. At his suggestion, his student Walther Nemst (1864-1941 Nobel prize, 1920) investigated the thermodynamic equilibrium... 

Haber demonstrated that the production of ammonia from the elements was feasible in the laboratory, but it was up to Carl Bosch, a chemist and engineer at BASF, to transform the process into large-scale production. The industrial converter that Bosch and his coworkers created was completely revised, including a cheaper and more effective catalyst based on extensive studies in high-pressure catalytic reactions. This approach led to Bosch receiving the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1931, and the production of multimillion tons of fertilizer per year worldwide, see also Agricultural Chemistry Catalysis and Catalysts Equilibrium Le Chatelier, Henri Nernst, Walther Hermann Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm. 

Reichhn Robin L., 948 Reimers Jeffrey R., 362 Reines Frederick, 593 Reinhoudt David N., 978 Rejewski Marian, 1003 Ridard Jacqueline, 469 Riemann Georg Friedrich Bernhard, 560 RipoU Daniel R., 819 Ritz Walther, 232, 239 Robb Michael A., 313, 334 Roch Jean-Fran9ois, 47 Rodnikova Margarita, 89, 867... 

Arch.MPG, I A 1-1789, 21-22, list of members of the board and the administration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Foundation for Military Technical Science. In GStAPK-M, Rep. 76 Vc Sekt. 1 Tit. 8, Abt. 8 Stiftungssachen 17 Bd. 1, 35, Roethe to Schmidt-Ott, 26 October 1916, the following are named on the behalf of the Academy as heads of the expert committees Emil Fischer, Walther Nernst, Fritz Haber, Alois Riedler. In idem, 45, Academy to Schmidt-Ott (21 December 1916), Friedrich Wiist was named as head of the Committee for Metals. BBAWA, II - XI - 159, Bl. 22, Emil Fischa- to Wilhelm Waldeyer (20 December 1916), shows that Nernst, Haber, and Fischer had previously agreed to nominate Wiist to a meeting of the full Academy, without further discussion. 

The excellence of German chemistry in general, not just of its organic branch, is objectively attested by its share of Nobel Prizes during the first two decades of the award s existence. Of the seventeen prizes awarded between 1901 and 1921 nine were to German chemists Hermann Emil Fischer (1902), Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Baeyer (1905), Edward Buchner (1907), Wilhelm Ostwald (1909), Otto Wallach (1910), Alfred Werner (1913), Richard Will-statter (1915), Fritz Haber (1918), and Walther Nemst (1920). 

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