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The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (FHI) is a science research institute located at the heart of the academic district of Dahlem, in Berlin, Germany.
The original Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, founded in 1911, was incorporated into the
The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (FHI) is a science research institute located at the heart of the academic district of Dahlem, in Berlin, Germany.
The original Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, founded in 1911, was incorporated into the Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (german: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. ...
and simultaneously renamed for its first director, Fritz Haber, in 1953.
The research topics covered throughout the history of the institute include chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics, colloid chemistry
A colloid is a mixture in which one substance consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance. Some definitions specify that the particles must be dispersed in a liquid, while others extend ...
, atomic physics
Atomic physics is the field of physics that studies atoms as an isolated system of electrons and an atomic nucleus. Atomic physics typically refers to the study of atomic structure and the interaction between atoms. It is primarily concerned wit ...
, spectroscopy
Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets the electromagnetic spectra that result from the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter as a function of the wavelength or frequency of the radiation. Matter wa ...
, surface chemistry and surface physics
Surface science is the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases, including solid– liquid interfaces, solid–gas interfaces, solid–vacuum interfaces, and liquid–gas interfaces. It includes the f ...
, chemical physics and molecular physics, theoretical chemistry, and materials science.
During World War I and World War II, the research of the institute was directed towards Germany's military needs.
To the illustrious past members of the Institute belong Herbert Freundlich
Herbert Max Finlay Freundlich (28 January 1880 in Charlottenburg – 30 March 1941 in Minneapolis) was a German chemist.
His father was of German Jewish descent, and his mother ( Finlay) was from Scotland. His younger brother was Erw ...
, James Franck, Paul Friedlander, Rudolf Ladenburg, Michael Polanyi, Eugene Wigner, Ladislaus Farkas, Hartmut Kallmann, Otto Hahn, Robert Havemann, Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Iwan N. Stranski
Ivan Nikolov Stranski ( bg, Иван Николов Странски; german: Iwan Nikolow Stranski; 2 January 1897 – 19 June 1979) was a Bulgarian physical chemist who is considered the father of crystal growth research.
He was the founder o ...
, Ernst Ruska
Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (; 25 December 1906 – 27 May 1988) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.
Life and career
Erns ...
, Max von Laue
Max Theodor Felix von Laue (; 9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.
In addition to his scientific endeavors with cont ...
, Gerhard Borrmann, Rudolf Brill, Kurt Moliere, Jochen Block
Jochen is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Jochen Asche, East German luger, competed during the 1960s
*Jochen Böhler (born 1969), German historian, specializing in the history of World War II
*Jochen Babock (born 1953), East G ...
, Heinz Gerischer
Heinz Gerischer (31 March 1919 – 14 September 1994) was a German scientist. He was the thesis advisor of future Nobel laureate Gerhard Ertl.
The ''Heinz Gerischer Award'' of the European section of The Electrochemical Society is named in his h ...
, , Kurt Ueberreiter, Alexander Bradshaw
Alexander Marian Bradshaw (born 12 July 1944 Bushey) is a British physicist. He was scientific director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, from 1999 to 2008.
He earned a PhD from University of London in 1969, and habilitation from ...
, Elmar Zeitler
Elmar Zeitler (12 March 1927 – 19 December 2020) was a German physicist.
Academic career
After his service within German Luftwaffe and American prisoner of war, Zeitler studied physics in his hometown Würzburg. The advisor of his dissertat ...
, and Gerhard Ertl.
Nobel Prize laureates affiliated with the institute include Max von Laue
Max Theodor Felix von Laue (; 9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.
In addition to his scientific endeavors with cont ...
(1914), Fritz Haber (1918), James Franck (1925), Otto Hahn (1944), Eugene Wigner (1963), Ernst Ruska
Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (; 25 December 1906 – 27 May 1988) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.
Life and career
Erns ...
(1986), Gerhard Ertl (2007).
Structure
There are five departments with a number of research groups within:Current department
*Inorganic Chemistry (Robert Schlögl
Robert Schlögl (born 23 February 1954 in Munich) is a German chemist known for research in catalysis. Currently, he is the Director and Scientific Member of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin and the Max Planck Institut ...
)
**Reactivity (Annette Trunschke)
**Electronic Structure (Axel Knop-Gericke)
**Liquid/vapor Interfaces (Hendrik Bluhm)
**Electron Microscopy (Thomas Lunkenbein)
*Interface Science ( Beatriz Roldan Cuenya)
**Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy (Wee Chee)
**Scanning Probe Microscopy (Markus Heyde)
**Photo-Electrochemical Scanning Probe Microscopy (Christopher Kley)
**Thin Films (Helmut Kuhlenbeck)
**Structure and Reactivity (Shamil Shaikhutdinov)
**Spectro-Microscopy (Thomas Schmidt)
**Operando Hard X-ray Spectroscopy (Janis Timoshenko)
*Molecular Physics ( Gerard Meijer)
**Controlled Molecules (Sandra Eibenberger-Arias)
**Spectroscopy and chemistry of metal clusters and cluster complexes (André Fielicke)
**Interactions of molecules with fields ( Bretislav Friedrich)
**Infrared excitation of gas-phase molecules and clusters (Gert von Helden)
**Cold and ultracold molecules (Stefan Truppe)
**Liquid microjets (Bernd Winter)
*Physical Chemistry ( Martin Wolf)
**Nanoscale Surface Chemistry (Takashi Kumagai)
**Ultrafast Scanning Probe Microscopy (Melanie Müller)
**Lattice Dynamics (Alex Paarmann)
**Nonlinear Interfacial Spectroscopy Group (Martin Thämer)
**Structural & Electronic Surface Dynamics (Ralph Ernstorfer)
**Terahertz Physics (Tobias Kampfrath)
**Electron Dynamiχ (A. Julia Stähler)
*Theory ( Karsten Reuter)
**Data-Efficient Chemical Machine Learning (Johannes Margraf)
**Multiscale Modeling from Electrons to the Reactor (Sebastian Matera)
**First-principles modeling of solid-liquid interfaces and electrocatalysis (Nicolas Hörmann)
**Understanding of functional solid-solid interfaces at the atomistic level (Christoph Scheurer)
**Interatomic machine learning potentials for energy materials (Hendrik Heenen)
**Selectivity in catalysis (Vanessa Jane Bukas)
Former department
*Theory (Matthias Scheffler
Matthias Scheffler (born June 25, 1951, in Berlin) is a German theoretical physicist whose research focuses on Condensed matter physics, condensed matter theory, materials science, and artificial intelligence. He is particularly known for his con ...
)
**Unifying Concepts in Catalysis (Sergey Levchenko)
**Heat and Charge Transport (Christian Carbogno)
**Ab Initio Biomolecular Simulations (Carsten Baldauf)
**Simulations from Ab Initio Approaches: Structure and Dynamics from Quantum Mechanics (Mariana Rossi)
**Big-Data Analytics for Materials Science (Luca M. Ghiringhelli)
**Crystal-Structure Prediction and Heterogeneous Catalysis (Matthias Scheffler
Matthias Scheffler (born June 25, 1951, in Berlin) is a German theoretical physicist whose research focuses on Condensed matter physics, condensed matter theory, materials science, and artificial intelligence. He is particularly known for his con ...
)
**Max Planck Fellow Group ( Claudia Draxl)
**Max Planck Partner Group for Advanced Electronic-Structure Methods (Xinguo Ren)
References
External links
*Fritz Haber Institute
The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (FHI) is a science research institute located at the heart of the academic district of Dahlem, in Berlin, Germany.
The original Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochem ...
Chemical research institutes
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