Fritz Haber Collection 1907-1960

Original correspondence consists of one letter each to Peter Pringsheim (1912); Joseph Koeth (1928); and A. Sommerfeld; as well as six letters to Ernst Stern (1907-1908). A handwritten 1933 letter from Fritz Haber to Chaim Weizmann in Mannern, Switzerland (6 pages) is available as a photocopy only. Also included is a typescript by Hans Schaeffer on Jews in Breslau (photocopy), ’Die soziale, politische und religioese Stellung der juedischen Familien in Breslau um die Jahrhundertwende 1900’. The typescript is part of a letter by Hans Schaeffer to Johannes Jaenicke, also in the collection.digitizedBorn in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) on December 9, 1868, Haber was a chemist, professor of chemistry at the Karlsruhe Technical Institute from 1903 to 1911, when he was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie. Haber received the Nobel Prize in 1919 for his work on the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. He resigned his directorship in 1933 and died in Basel on January 29, 1934.Fritz Haber’s correspondence with Richard Willstaetter, 89 letters, 15 postal cards, 2 telegrams, 1910-1934 (all photocopies) is available in AR 861.Photographs removed to Photograph Collectio