After Haber threw a big party to celebrate beating Nernst and to becoming rich and famous. After this they got straight to work. Bosch wanted to start the construction of a much larger prototype of the machine.Bosch and Haber worked very hard until Haber had began to have stomach pains and be affected by exhaustion. Haber was hospitalized, but Bosch continued working on the project. He built a team of amazing chemists and engineers to help build this machine. Franz Lappe was in charge of the building of the machine while Alwin Mittasch was in charge of getting the catalyst for the experiments (osmium and uranium). BASF patented everything they were doing so no one could build the idea before them. Soon Haber was back to work and started to patent all of his inventions. Other businesses wanted Haber and Le Rossignol to build it for them so they tried to take them from BASF. Haber had so much success that he decided he wasn’t getting enough money for this so he wanted to renegotiate his contract with BASF. Haber tried to lure BASF into giving a bigger deal by saying a rival business Auer tried to get him to help them with eight times the payment a, a chair seating, and a new laboratory. Haber did get a new contract that gave him at least 23,000 marks a year, a commision on the ammonia produced, and 8,000 marks for his lab every year. BASF was pretty mad when he want more money from them, but they needed him so they did. Brunck was determined that this was going to save BASF and make them all very rich. Bosch became so respected he became Brunck right hand man. Haber at one point want to leave BASF and make his own machine,but he knew he needed their money to fix the problems of his machine. When the machine was smaller there weren’t big problems, but when the machine was bigger they needed the supply of the reactants for the ammonia, the catalyst, the pressure (the small chamber only worked because it could be carved out of quartz, but since it's so big now it can’t be carved out of quartz), and other problems. BASF needed more of the catalyst so they actually bought all the osmium in the world. It cost about 400,000 marks, but it could only make 750 tons of ammonia a year. Bosch was planning on making twenty times that number. Even though they could use uranium that to was expensive and pretty rare. They started to test everything. Nothing was working until they tested a magnetite (a type of iron ore) in from a North Sweden mine. Mittasch had an idea. Iron was just a base that could be used to find the catalyst a “promoter” needed to be added to it. He then began putting different element with the iron. Aluminum oxide was the first one to work as good as osmium then they added calcium to the aluminum and iron which made it better than osmium. It was a risk because these elements contaminated easilier, but they were much cheaper. Though it took many explosions of their lab they did find the perfect catalyst. Haber was the most stunned because when he was first researching this topic Ostwald majorly failed with using iron and now to find out it's just what they needed. After this Haber began to have less and less importance to this project because Bosch took over. Haber didn’t mind because he was still becoming rich. He turned to fame to take up his time. It took about a year for BASF to finally allow Haber to tell everyone about his invention (BASF didn’t want anyone to steal the idea). Haber told the world with his speech “Making Nitrogen Usable”. In this speech he talked about catalysts for his invention, but only talked about osmium and uranium so no one would take the idea of iron, aluminum, and calcium. Haber asked BASF for help when he was overwhelmed with reporters, but BASF said no because the less the public knew the less other companies knew so they could have the advantage over other companies. Haber wanted more fame thought he already had became a very famous scientists, but still wanted more. He had felt restricted at BASF so he looked for another place to go. Finally his friend Leopold Koppel said he was building a huge science research center that was going to be only research in the field of chemistry.
This center was to be in Berlin, a city that Haber wanted to be all of his life. Berlin was the center of Germany’s culture, politics, and life. Haber quickly took the job as the founding director of the institute that was to be named “The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry”.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
He left BASF and his former university Karlsruhe in 1911.
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