| Preface | 7 |
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| Acknowledgments | 11 |
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| 1 “under my protection and name....” – Origins and Founding of the Institute | 13 |
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| Haber’s Institute during the First World War | 37 |
| 2 The “Golden Years” of Haber’s Institute | 47 |
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| Rebuilding within the Kaiser Wilhelm Society | 60 |
| Research Orientation: Colloid Chemistry and Atomic Structure | 75 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 81 |
| Spectroscopy and Quantum Physics | 93 |
| 3 The “National Socialist Model Enterprise” | 101 |
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| Ousters and Reorganizations | 102 |
| Research Activities | 119 |
| Integration into the National Socialist System | 131 |
| 4 A Patchwork Institute | 143 |
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| Structure Research under Laue | 162 |
| The Special Case of Ruska | 172 |
| Rudolf Brill and the end of the Laue era | 181 |
| 5 Reshaping the Fritz Haber Institute | 195 |
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| Research Programs, Initiated and Expired | 196 |
| The Institute for Electron Microscopy (IFE) – between Science and Technology | 207 |
| Alexander Bradshaw and Synchrotron Research in Berlin (BESSY) | 218 |
| Fritz Haber Institute as an International Center for Surface Science | 226 |
| 6 Current Era | 245 |
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| Ushering in the Institute’s next hundred years | 245 |
| Theory Department | 247 |
| Department of Inorganic Chemistry | 253 |
| Department of Chemical Physics | 260 |
| Department of Molecular Physics | 267 |
| Department of Physical Chemistry | 274 |
| Members of the Advisory Board 1981–2011 | 283 |
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| List of References | 285 |
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| Archives | 309 |
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| List of Figures | 311 |
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| Index | 313 |
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