Fritz Haber
Chemist, Academic
1868 – 1934
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Who was Fritz Haber?
Fritz Haber was a German chemist of Jewish origin, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his development for synthesizing ammonia, important for fertilizers and explosives. The food production for half the world's current population depends on this method for producing fertilizer. Haber, along with Max Born, proposed the Born–Haber cycle as a method for evaluating the lattice energy of an ionic solid. He has also been described as the "father of chemical warfare" for his work developing and deploying chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I.
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- Born
- Dec 9, 1868
Wrocław - Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Technical University of Berlin
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
- ETH Zurich
- Employment
- University of Karlsruhe
- Lived in
- Germany
- Wrocław
- Died
- Jan 29, 1934
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on July 23, 2013
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