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The chemist Fritz Haber was born in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) on Dec. 9, 1868. He was professor at the Karlsruhe Technical Institute in 1911, when he was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für 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 Jan. 29, 1934.

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Fritz Haber, Leo Baeck Institute, F 17861.