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The Big Fix …

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The BASF archives contain a ‘down-to-earth’ four-page report sent by Prof. Dr. Fritz Haber to the company’s directors on 03 July 1909 describing the events of the previous day when Alwin Mittasch and Julius Krantz from BASF witnessed the continuous production of synthetic ammonia in Haber’s Karlsruhe laboratory.

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Sheppard, D. (2020). The Big Fix …. In: Robert Le Rossignol. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29714-5_8

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