Interesting famous chemists for lecture?
I'm supposed to give a chemistry lecture about a chemist who, at best, won a Nobel Prize. The lecture should focus more on the person than on his discoveries. So, there's a chemist with a particularly interesting CV. I'm in the 13th grade at a high school.
Thanks in advance!
When it comes to the person, Fritz Haber might be interesting. Together with Carl Bosch, he developed the Haber Bosch process for the industrial synthesis of ammonia. This has made the mass production of fertilizers and therefore also food possible. (I think there is an estimate that we could only feed about half the current world population if there were no such procedure).
But he also has a big negative side. Fritz Haber was the head of the German host groups in the First World War and has developed some chemical fighting materials.
Accordingly, he is such a two-edged sword of science.
Two souls eon thought.
Friedrich Wöhler is not a term for many, although he did something that seemed impossible for some, and opened a new field of chemistry, namely the synthesis of urea of an organic substance from non-organic starting materials.
He was a pioneer in biochemistry.
In my opinion, the CV is also interesting as he was originally a teacher and became a professor through royal decree.
Also the story of Wöhler’s friend, Justus von Liebig I find interesting
Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin, Linus Pauling are interesting personalities.
I would also like to call you Justus von Liebig, about whom there is enough docus for your research.
For your lecture, you could consider these chemists:
Thank you, that was very helpful.
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most broadly and with most information, movies and so on, Marie Curie might be…
Antoine de Lavoisier
If it may also be one that donates a Nobel Prize
has: Alfred Nobel. He was a chemist and had a very interesting life.
Or Otto Hahn, who, as a chemist, plays a key role in
Research into nuclear fission has contributed.
Thank you.
Core cleavage is physics
That’s the interesting thing. Otto Hahn was a chemist
and contributed to this. Lise Meitner,
worked with him, too, but she was a physicist.
Marie Curie