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“Bread from the Air” Haber-Bosch Process allowed
for population growth
Nitrogen Fixing “Bread from Air”
1909 Haber Process 1910 Industrialized by Carl
Bosch (Haber-Bosch Process) 1914 process used to
manufacture weapons for WW1 1915 Chlorine Gas used in WW1 1917 Mustard Gas used in WW1 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Haber Process allows: 30-40% of world’s population to
exist 50% of world’s food to be grown
Gas Attacks, WWI
15,000 casualties, 5,000 killed in one attack
Seen as ‘immoral’ and ‘inhuman’
Clara Immerwahr Clara Immerwahr,
also a chemist, married Haber
First woman to earn a PhD at her university
Haber’s use of poison gas led to her suicide
Their son also committed suicide after Haber’s death
Chlorine & Mustard Gas Victims
Zyklon A Zyklon B
Haber’s patriotism was not good enough for the Nazi’s
Haber’s Pesticide was adapted to the Nazi genocide gas, after his death
Haber’s relatives became victims
Sources
Great Minds video Nobel Prize Foundation RadioLab (20min) Smithsonian.com http://www.bbc.com/news/world-13015210 http://
www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-on-land/73-weapons-equipment-uniforms/226-fritz-haber.html
http://www.duhaime.org/LawMag/LawArticle-1094/Fritz-Haber-War-Criminal.aspx
https://sites.google.com/site/erinmossholocaustwebsite/viii-methods-of-execution
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/haberbosch.html http://riversedge.hubpages.com/hub/World-Population-Gro
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