THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO GAVE US HABER'S LAW
THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO GAVE US HABER'S LAW
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为我们提供哈伯定律的人的故事
DOI：
10.1080/089583797198213
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发表时间：
1997
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
H. Witschi
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作者：
H. Witschi
吸入毒理学家喜欢谈论哈伯定律。风险评估人员和监管机构乐于将其用于自己的目的。人们设计了一些实验来证实哈伯定律的正确性，这些实验往往要付出相当大的代价。大多数情况下，它们是不确定的。“法律”被认为是有用或无用的预测工具，这一事实导致了许多争议和辩论，在现场访问和委员会。每个人都是哈伯定律及其应用的专家。然而，当被问到这个问题时，没有人能回答这个简单的问题：谁是哈伯？这很奇怪毕竟，弗里茨·哈伯是诺贝尔奖赢家，美国国家科学院的外国准会员，革命性工业过程的开发者，德国一家著名科学研究所的所长。弗里茨·哈伯是世纪上半叶最受尊敬的科学家之一，不仅在德国，而且在英国、法国、美国、俄罗斯和日本都得到了认可。然而，这个人和他的成就仍然不为大多数假装知道他的“法律”的人所知。难怪他的定律经常被错误地引用和错误地解释，而弗里茨·哈伯本人从来没有打算使用它。
Inhalation toxicologists love to talk about Haber’s law. Risk assessors and regulators delight in applying it for their purposes. Experiments have been designed, often at considerable cost, to confirm the validity of Haber’s law. Most often, they are inconclusive. The “law” is thought of as being useful or being useless as a predictive tool, a fact that has led to much controversy and debate, on site visits and in committees. Everybody is an expert on Haber’s law and its application. Yet, when asked, nobody can answer the simple question: Who was Haber?This is odd. After all, Fritz Haber was a Nobel prize winner, a foreign associate member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the developer of a revolutionary industrial process, the director of a prestigious scientific institute in Germany. Fritz Haber was one of the most widely respected scientists of the first half of the 20th century, recognized not only in Germany, but in England, France, the United States, Russia, and Japan. And yet this man and his accomplishments remain unknown to most who pretend to know his “law.” No wonder then that his law, more often than not, is incorrectly quoted and erroneously interpreted, in a way Fritz Haber himself never intended it to be used.