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Table 7.1 Chapter overiew Gifts, sponsorship and payments... [Pg.84]

Six weeks later, with the emperor in attendance, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Sciences rose into life, inflated with the hot air of optimism, ambition, and pride. It represented a unique partnership of imperial sponsorship and private wealth. Private money built the institutes and paid most of their bills, but Prussia paid the salary of each institute director. At the first meeting of the society s governing council, chemist Emil Fischer proclaimed science the true land of unlimited possibilities. When Fischer mentioned, as one example of science s gifts, the capture of nitrogen fertilizer from the air, he saw the emperor nod his head in agreement. [Pg.122]


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