From 1886 to 1891, he studied chemistry at Heidelburg University, Berlin University, and Charlottenberg technical school. In 1894, he was uncertain whether to focus on Physics or Chemistry, when he was offered an assistantship with a leading combustion chemist at Karlsruhe. ... Haber was then appointed to succeed Engler as Director of the Institute for Physical and Electrochemistry at Berlin-Dahlem, but in 1933, Nazi race laws forced him to resign, rather than fire almost his entire staff. ... He also undertook work on the fixation of nitrogen, for which he was awarded the Nobel prize for Chem...

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Winner of two Nobel Prizes, for Physics in 1903 and for Chemistry in 1911, she performed pioneering studies with radium and polonium and contributed profoundly to the understanding of radioactivity. ... She came first in the license of physical sciences in 1893. ... While Curie's husband devoted himself chiefly to the physical study of the new radiations, Madame Curie struggled to obtain pure radium in the metallic state. ... In 1911 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, for the isolation of pure radium. ... In 1918 the Radium Institute, the staff of which Irene had joined, beg...

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