Szollosi-Janze, Margit

Szollosi-Janze, Trischler, GroBforschung] Szollosi-Janze, Margit/Helmuth Trischler (Eds.) GroBforschung in Deutschland. Erankfurt am Main 1990. 

Margit Szollosi-Janze, author of the most authoritative biography of Haber, graciously read this chapter and discussed it with the author. I am greatly indebted to... 

Margit Szollosi-Janze. Fritz Haber 1868-1934 Eine Biographie. Munich Verlag C. H. Beck, 1998. This authoritative biography of Haber scrupulously sorts fact from fiction unfortunately there is no English translation of this 928-page book. Source for facial scar attempt to become reserve officer role of sanitariums and Habers stays in them Clara as chemist and professor s wife Haber s BASF contract Reform Movement Clara s despairing letter Prussian ideals Haber as Archimedes his responsibility for poison gas and wartime authoritarianism Clara and poison gas Sackur Haber leaves after Clara s suicide Haber s postwar depression, Nobel Prize, postwar gas research, and help for Weimar Republic April 1933 events to end and Zyklon B. 

Margit Szollosi-Janze. Lice, Mites.. . The Uses and Abuses of Modern Science The Case of Fritz Haber 1868-1934. London Vortrag, 1999. Source for Haber s insecticides. 

This is a well researched topic so that it can be dealt with briefly here. See Haber, "The chemical industry"(1971) (ref. 6),184-217 Chandler, "Scale" (ref. 6), 503-584 and Plumpe, "Die LG. Farbenindustrie" (ref. 6), 63-95. See recently with more references Margit Szollosi-Janze, "Berater, Agent, Interessent Fritz Haber, die BASF und die staatliche Stickstoffpolitik im Ersten Weltkrieg," Berichte zur Wissen-schaftsgeschichte, 19 (1996), 105-117. 

The second "discussion" Td like to emphasize is related to the first, and centers around the process of "internationalization" of the chemical industry in the course of the twentieth century. Kudo, Marsch, Steen, and Margit Szollosi-Janze all stressed the role of World War I in this regard, something underscored by David Hounshell in his commentary during the confer-... 

Margit Szollosi-Janze, Kate Venables, and John Walker for discussing, and exchanging valuable information about, the subject matter on numerous occasions. Whilst all the above-named have helped in the genesis, development, and production of this book, I must include the usual disclaimer to the effect that any errors are of course mine alone. 

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