What is Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society?
{{redlinks|date=August 2012}} The '''Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society''' is a [[science]] research group in [[Dahlem]], [[Berlin]], [[Germany]]. The original was called Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for [[Physical chemistry|Physical Chemistry]] and Electrochemistry, and it was founded in 1911. That became part of the [[Max Planck Society]] and took the name of the first director, [[Fritz Haber]], in 1953. The Institute has researched many kinds of physics including chemical [[kinetics]] and [[reaction dynamics]], [[colloid]] chemistry, [[atomic physics]], [[spectroscopy]], [[surface chemistry]] and [[surface physics]], [[chemical physics]] and [[molecular physics]], [[theoretical chemistry]], and [[materials science]]. During [[World War I]] and [[World War II]], the Institute did much war work for Germany's military. Some of the most important members in the Institutes past are: Herbert Freundlich, Paul Friedlander, Rudolf Ladenburg, Michael Polanyi, Ladislaus Farkas, Hartmut Kallmann, Robert Havemann, Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Rudolf Brill, Kurt Moliere, Jochen Block, Heinz Gerischer, Rolf Hosemann, Kurt Überreiter, and Alex Bradshaw. [[Nobel Prize]] winners involved with the Institute include [[Max von Laue]] (1914), [[Fritz Haber]] (1918), [[James Franck]] (1925), [[Otto Hahn]] (1944), [[Eugene Wigner]] (1963), [[Ernst Ruska]] (1986), [[Gerhard Ertl]] (2007). ==Other websites== *[http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/?lang=e The Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG] website {{coord|52|26|56|N|13|16|55|E|type:landmark|display=title}} [[Category:Research organizations in Europe]] [[Category:Organizations based in Berlin]] [[Category:1911 establishments in Germany]] {{Multistub|europe|sci}}