Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
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Lived 1868–1934, aged 66Germany
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The chemist who fed billions and invented chemical weapons: his process for synthesizing ammonia sustains nearly half the world's population through fertilizer, and his chlorine-gas warfare broke the trenches at Ypres.
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Fritz Jakob Haber, born 9 December 1868, was a German chemist whose invention of the Haber process — synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen — won him the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and now supports roughly a third of global food production. A known German nationalist, he turned his mind to war during World War I, pioneering chlorine gas as a weapon to break trench deadlock at the Second Battle of Ypres, earning him the title "father of chemical warfare." His work was later adapted, without his involvement, into Zyklon B, the pesticide used to kill over a million Jews in Holocaust g…
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