Haber

[ hah-ber ]

noun

1. Fritz, 1868–1934, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1918.

Haber

/ hä′bər /

1. German chemist who received a 1918 Nobel Prize for developing a method of producing ammonia synthetically from nitrogen and hydrogen gases.

Example Sentences

Von Braun focused on space, while Haber became the face of Disney’s atom.

From Nautilus

Rather than discuss technical details, Haber begins by telling the story of a fisherman attempting to convince a magical creature, living in an ancient-looking container pulled from the sea, to do his bidding.

From Nautilus

Kimball reached out to von Braun and soon both he and Haber became technical consultants for Disney.

From Nautilus

Hydrogen became particularly useful after the early 20th century invention of the Haber process, which combines the gas with nitrogen in the atmosphere to produce ammonia, a compound valuable for its use in fertilizer and explosives.

From Time

Ammonia is a chemical precursor of synthetic fertilizers, and the Haber-Bosch process is still one of the most important industrial processes today, providing fertilizer for almost half the world’s food production.

From MIT Technology Review

Where Haber is clearly wrong is in arguing that Israel's Law of Return empowers Jews as adherents of a religion.

From The Daily Beast

And Jerry Haber wrote this, also at Open Zion; like Levine, Haber is an academic philosopher and critic of Zionism.

From The Daily Beast

An Israeli journalist named Eitan Haber recently made an intriguing proposal.

From The Daily Beast

Haber considers that ionic concentrations of 1014 can still account for very fast actions.

From Project Gutenberg

The values obtained agree, in general, with Haber's contention.

From Project Gutenberg

No quiero omitir aqui sobre esta palabra que lo que debiera haber dicho, quando se trató de la conjuncion.

From Project Gutenberg

Un da otro-os alcanzar su venganza, y expiaris, muriendo, el delito de haber encenagado sus ondas.

From Project Gutenberg

Porque no me parece de tanta edad como para haber vivido en el tiempo en que las brujas andaban todava por el mundo.

From Project Gutenberg