Fritz Haber by

Murderer?

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 12:58:37 UTC

Hero?

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 12:59:23 UTC

Ammonia

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 12:59:32 UTC

German

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 12:59:38 UTC

Jew

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 12:59:42 UTC

Nobel Prize

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 12:59:54 UTC

World War 1

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:03:22 UTC

Death

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:03:31 UTC

Husband

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:04:01 UTC

Father

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:04:05 UTC

Zyklon B

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:07:21 UTC

Einstein's Gift

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:09:13 UTC

Chemical warefare

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:10:29 UTC

Einstein

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:14:25 UTC

Zyklon B

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:16:06 UTC

Albert Einstein called Haber's life "the tragedy of the German Jew: the tragedy of unrequited love."

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:25:12 UTC

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:25:38 UTC

By 1926, Fritz Haber‟s health was rapidly deteriorating. Having given up his work dealing with chemical weaponry research and manufacturing, he turned his attention to "more general scientific themes".2 Although he could no longer spend all his energy at the institute, for he had accepted a variety of public responsibilities, he was a large part in the bringing about of a sort of golden age at the institute.

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:27:05 UTC

Hitler‟s rise to power seems to correlate with Haber‟s own demise. In a letter to his son, Haber stated, bitterly, that Hitler‟s National Social Party had gained "a few millions" in campaign funding. So when, in the 1932 election, the Nazis became the single largest party in Germany, Haber must have felt some sense of an impending crisis. The Nazi party had already been affecting Haber‟s life for some time. For the last few months, he would have been a witness to the increased hostility amongst those around him. In fact, employees who were National Socialists had begun throwing accusations at their co-workers, accusing them of communist activities. Yet even with all this going on, it is doubtful that Haber fully understood how far and how fast the Nazi‟s would turn against those of Jewish heritage.

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:29:46 UTC

Having once worked tirelessly as an advocate of the German nation, continuously trying to strengthen her both her internal and international standings, to now be singled-out and regarded as nothing more than a Jew must have broken Haber‟s heart. - 55 - Although he had been labeled as Jewish, Haber did have to option of remaining in his office, because he was a veteran of war. This option was at first considered a great deal by Haber, because if he remained in his position, from there he could aid those younger Jewish scientists who now found themselves in a bad predicament.

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:33:20 UTC

a new Nazi-appointed director of the institute was likely „to study chemical warfare with the Institute…. You will remember that in was time I have been the leader of the chemical warfare in Germany and that I have been proud to work for the military authorities with the institute as an experimental basis. But after the Armistice, I have cancelled every such work and fully declined to renew it in whatever form.‟

kieran_finney — 2013-06-11 13:36:32 UTC

kieran_finney — 2013-06-13 10:42:10 UTC

An astonishing fact: Half of all the nitrogen molecules within our bodies have come from a factory using Haber's process. This invention is what earned him the Nobel prize for chemistry.

kieran_finney — 2013-06-13 10:46:48 UTC

Next, he was villain, at least to non-Germans: Haber was the driving force behind Germany's use of chemical weapons in World War I, personally supervising the development and release of deadly chlorine, phosgene, and mustard. Even Haber's great nitrogen-fixing invention was first employed not to produce food but to provide explosives for war. Without Haber's invention, Germany would have been forced to capitulate within a year after the war began.

kieran_finney — 2013-06-13 10:47:37 UTC

Haber played a major role in the development of chemical warfare in World War I. Part of this work included the development of gas masks with absorbent filters. Haber received much criticism for his involvement in the development of chemical weapons in pre-World War II Germany both by contemporaries and by modern-day scientists.

kieran_finney — 2013-06-13 10:57:48 UTC

Habers Rule

kieran_finney — 2013-06-13 11:00:46 UTC

The exposure to a low concentration of poisionous gas for a long time often has the same effect (death) as exposure to a higher concentration for a short time. He formulated a simple mathematical relationship between the gas concentration and the exposure time. Zis relationzip became known az Haber's rule.

Family

kieran_finney — 2013-06-13 11:17:32 UTC

Wife committed suicideafter first gas attack performed by Fritz, son travelled to America and comitted suicide