Nobel Prize in Chemistry

All Year 11 students are now studying hard for their examinations and the Haber process is a topic which always seems to crop up in the IGCSE chemistry exam, but how many students know that Fritz Haber was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1918? Does anyone else know who first developed the catalyst used in the catalytic cracking of petroleum, without which we couldn’t start up our cars? Well, the 1963 Nobel Prize winners, Ziegler and Natta were responsible for that question too. We all study the Periodic Table and puzzle over why the elements after uranium are not natural. We can also thank the 1951 winners, McMillan and Seaborg, for their efforts in discovering such important elements.

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