FRITZ HABER(1868 -1934)

“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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