Tony Harrison's 1992 London stage play, Square Rounds, seems to say "yes," parodying
Fritz Haber by having him say these lines:
Fritz Haber is lauded as the Nobel laureate whose advancements in chemistry are responsible for the growth in world population from 1.6 billion in 1900 to more than 6 billion today and simultaneously vilified as the father of chemical warfare, having personally directed the first use of chemical weapons--a massive chlorine attack that changed the face of World War I.
Die technische Losung gelang
Fritz Haber im Labormafistab im Marz 1909.
Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch created the Haber Bosch process in the early 20th century for making synthetic fertilizer.
One of the most influential factors in the historical grain yield increase was the application of artificial ammonia-based fertilizer through a process invented by
Fritz Haber, commonly known as the Haber-Bosch process.
The research institutions include the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, the Department of Physics at the Munich Technical University, the Physics Department at Ludwig Maximilian University at Munich and the
Fritz Haber Institute at Berlin, Germany.
Go to the 28-minute mark of this episode of Radiolab for a great, moving profile of
Fritz Haber, the German-Jewish inventor of ammonia, which (as fertilizer) saved Europe from famine.
Morris Goran, a Author of The Story of
Fritz Haber, has carefully remained anonymous to those of us who do not know him personally.
(5) In 1915, poison gas warfare became the initiative of a Germany military unit that included five future Nobel laureates in science, amongst them James Franck,
Fritz Haber, Otto Hahn, Walther Nernst and Gustav Nersnt.
In this self-contained introduction to surface reactions, Ertl, professor emeritus at
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany, expands on ideas he first presented in his 2007 Baker Lectures at Cornell University.
Given this, it is unclear how influential a legacy Dundonald left for the chemical innovators of the First World War, and this reviewer must conclude that the title of "father of chemical warfare" still belongs to
Fritz Haber.
In the early 20th century, German scientist
Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize for inventing a method to rip this bond apart and create other nitrogen-containing compounds that are more available for industrial use.
He turned to
Fritz Haber, a brilliant Jewish scientist, who had invented a process to synthesize ammonia, a key step toward making nitrates available for use in fertilizers and explosives.
Ammonia became widely available after 1913 when
Fritz Haber developed a process for directly combining hydrogen and nitrogen at elevated temperature and pressure to produce ammonia.
