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Fritz Haber
Developing ammonia synthesis and directing Germany’s First World War poison-gas programme.
Ammonia synthesis · Poison gas
- Born
- 9 December 1868
- Birthplace
- Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland)
- Died
- 29 January 1934
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Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber was a German chemist whose research enabled large-scale fertiliser production but whose wartime work also helped establish chemical warfare.
Early life
Family business
Grew up in a merchant household.
Chemistry studies
Studied in Berlin and Heidelberg before receiving his doctorate.
Career
- 1894
Karlsruhe
Joined the technical institute.
- 1911
Institute director
Led the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry.
- 1933
Departure
Left Germany after the Nazis came to power.
Contributions
Ammonia synthesis
Demonstrated a high-pressure process later industrialised by Carl Bosch.
Poison gas
Helped organise the chlorine attack at Ypres.
Born–Haber cycle
Developed a thermochemical method with Max Born.
Beyond the lab
Family
His first wife Clara Immerwahr was also a chemist.
Exile
Nazi racial policy drove him from the country he had served.
Sources & photo credit
Biography and career ↗Further source ↗Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author. Public domain · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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