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{{short description|German catalysis research institute}}
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The '''Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society''' ('''FHI''') is a science research institute located at the heart of the academic district of [[Dahlem (Berlin)|Dahlem]], in [[Berlin]], [[Germany]].
The original '''Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry''', founded in 1911, was incorporated into the [[Max Planck Society]] and simultaneously renamed for its first director, [[Fritz Haber]], in 1953.
The research topics covered throughout the history of the institute include [[chemical kinetics]] and [[reaction dynamics]], [[colloid chemistry]], [[atomic physics]], [[spectroscopy]], [[surface chemistry]] and [[surface physics]], [[chemical physics]] and [[molecular physics]], [[theoretical chemistry]], and [[materials science]].<ref name="Angew2011">{{cite journal |author1=B. Friedrich |author2=D. Hoffmann |author3=J. James | title = One Hundred Years of the Fritz Haber Institute | journal = Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. | year = 2011 | pages =10022–10049 | volume = 50 | doi = 10.1002/anie.201104792 | issue=43 | pmid=21957069}}</ref>
During [[World War I]] and [[World War II]], the research of the institute was directed towards Germany's military needs.<ref>{{Cite web|title=FHI - Historical Review of the Fritz-Haber-Institut|url=http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/history/|access-date=2020-07-03|website=www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de}}</ref>
To the illustrious past members of the Institute belong [[Herbert Freundlich]], [[James Franck]], [[Paul Friedländer (chemist)|Paul Friedlander]], [[Rudolf Ladenburg]], [[Michael Polanyi]], [[Eugene Wigner]], [[Ladislaus Farkas]], [[Hartmut Kallmann]], [[Otto Hahn]], [[Robert Havemann]], [[Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer]], [[Iwan Nikola Stranski|Iwan N. Stranski]], [[Ernst Ruska]], [[Max von Laue]], [[Gerhard Borrmann]], [[Rudolf Brill]], [[Kurt Moliere]], [[Jochen Block]], [[Heinz Gerischer]], [[Rolf Hosemann]], [[Kurt Ueberreiter]], [[Alexander Bradshaw]], [[Elmar Zeitler]], and [[Gerhard Ertl]].
[[Nobel Prize|Nobel Prize laureates]] affiliated with the institute include [[Max von Laue]] (1914), [[Fritz Haber]] (1918), [[James Franck]] (1925), [[Otto Hahn]] (1944), [[Eugene Wigner]] (1963), [[Ernst Ruska]] (1986), [[Gerhard Ertl]] (2007).
== Structure ==
There are five departments with a number of research groups within:
=== Current department ===
*Inorganic Chemistry ([[Beatriz Roldán Cuenya]] (interim))<ref>{{Cite web|title=FHI – Department of Inorganic Chemistry|url=http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/acnew/department/index.html|access-date=2020-07-03|website=www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de}}</ref>
**Reactivity (Annette Trunschke)
**Electronic Structure (Axel Knop-Gericke)
**Liquid/vapor Interfaces (Hendrik Bluhm)
**Electron Microscopy (Thomas Lunkenbein)
*Interface Science ([[Beatriz Roldán Cuenya]])
**Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy (Wee Chee)
**Scanning Probe Microscopy (Markus Heyde)
**Photo-Electrochemical Scanning Probe Microscopy (Christopher Kley)
**Thin Films (Helmut Kuhlenbeck)
**Structure and Reactivity (Shamil Shaikhutdinov)
**Spectro-Microscopy (Thomas Schmidt)
**Operando Hard X-ray Spectroscopy (Janis Timoshenko)
**Interfacial Ionics (Sebastian Oener)
**Metal-Organic Interfaces (Juan J. Navarro)
**Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces (Mariana Monteiro)
**Dynamics at Electrocatalytic Interfaces (Arno Bergmann)
*Molecular Physics ([[Gerard Meijer]])
**Controlled Molecules (Sandra Eibenberger-Arias)
**Spectroscopy and chemistry of metal clusters and cluster complexes (André Fielicke)
**Interactions of molecules with fields ([[Bretislav Friedrich]])
**Infrared excitation of gas-phase molecules and clusters (Gert von Helden)
**Cold and ultracold molecules (Stefan Truppe)
**Liquid microjets (Bernd Winter)
*Physical Chemistry ([[Martin Wolf (Physicist)|Martin Wolf]])
**Nanoscale Surface Chemistry (Takashi Kumagai)
**Ultrafast Scanning Probe Microscopy (Melanie Müller)
**Lattice Dynamics (Alex Paarmann)
**Nonlinear Interfacial Spectroscopy Group (Martin Thämer)
**Structural & Electronic Surface Dynamics (Ralph Ernstorfer)
**Terahertz Physics (Tobias Kampfrath)
**Electron Dynamiχ (A. Julia Stähler)
*Theory ([[Karsten Reuter]])
**Data-Efficient Chemical Machine Learning (Johannes Margraf)
**Multiscale Modeling from Electrons to the Reactor (Sebastian Matera)
**First-principles modeling of solid-liquid interfaces and electrocatalysis (Nicolas Hörmann)
**Understanding of functional solid-solid interfaces at the atomistic level (Christoph Scheurer)
**Interatomic machine learning potentials for energy materials (Hendrik Heenen)
**Selectivity in catalysis (Vanessa Jane Bukas)
=== Former department ===
*Theory ([[Matthias Scheffler]])
**Unifying Concepts in Catalysis (Sergey Levchenko)
**Heat and Charge Transport (Christian Carbogno)
**Ab Initio Biomolecular Simulations (Carsten Baldauf)
**Simulations from Ab Initio Approaches: Structure and Dynamics from Quantum Mechanics (Mariana Rossi)
**Big-Data Analytics for Materials Science (Luca M. Ghiringhelli)
**Crystal-Structure Prediction and Heterogeneous Catalysis ([[Matthias Scheffler]])
**Max Planck Fellow Group ([[Claudia Draxl]])
**Max Planck Partner Group for Advanced Electronic-Structure Methods (Xinguo Ren)
== References ==
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== External links ==
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* {{Official website|www.fhi.mpg.de}}
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