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My Life with Science

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Gerhard Ertl My Life with Science (Lives in Chemistry – Lebenswerke in der Chemie) 196 pp, 98 fig., hardcover, in slipcase, 39.80 € ISBN 978-3-86225-131-5 Extended English edition of the German language autobiography.

Table of contents

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Preface

1  Youth and education
1.1  The beginnings
1.2  University studies
1.3  Diploma thesis
1.4  Doctorate

2  University teacher
2.1  Habilitation
2.2  Professor in Hanover
2.3  Professor in Munich
    2.3.1  The mechanism of ammonia synthesis

3  Director at the Fritz Haber Institute
3.1  Preface
3.2  Real catalysis
3.3  Dynamics of surface processes
3.4  Electronic excitations in surface reactions
3.5  Surface processes on the atomic scale
3.6  Electrochemical micromachining
3.7  Oscillating reactions and nonlinear dynamics

4  (Un-)retirement
4.1  Emeritus status
4.2  Teaching and organization of science
4.3  Awards
4.4  The role of music

5  About the limits of the knowledge of nature
5.1  Where do we stand?
5.2  Chemistry — a completed science?
    5.2.1  The stable equilibria
    5.2.2  The binding forces
    5.2.3  The rates
    5.2.4  The unstable equilibria

Appendix
Epilogue
Vita
Chemistree
Holographs
Publications
Links
Image sources
Index

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