Alwin Mittasch

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Paul Alwin Mittasch (Sorbian: Pawoł Alwin Mitaš; 27 December 1869 – 4 June 1953) was a German chemist and scientific historian of Sorbian descent. He is well known by his pioneering and systematic research in the development of catalysts for the industrial ammonia synthesis using the Haber–Bosch process. Alwin Mittasch was born in 1869 as a son of a teacher in the Sorbian village of Großdehsa (Sorbian: Dažin) which is today part of Löbau in Germany. He had a brother and three sisters. He attended elementary school in his home village of Großdehsa. Then he changed to a boarding school in Bautzen, where in 1889 the teacher seminar finished. Then he began, like his father, a career as a teacher. He began as an assistant teacher at an elementary school. In 1892 he moved to Leipzig and began there as a sideline in University of Leipzig with the study of numerous fields to which history, philosophy, psychology counted, however, also the natural sciences. He concentrated on chemistry and in 1901 he received a doctorate in the department of the physical chemistry under Max Bodenstein.