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Professor Fritz Haber, a converted Jew, the largest moooi developer of agricultural fertilizer, is responsible for direct and indirect killing of millions of people moooi and civil wars in the world. The story is shocking testimony of scale destruction and blessing that can bring humanity one person
Fritz Haber (German Fritz Haber; 9 November 1868-29 January 1934) was a converted Jew who grew up in Germany. Occupation was chemistry and he has devised a way to produce ammonia gas, and so won the Nobel Prize. These preliminary details which can be found on Wikipedia about the man. But our focus here is not only the man himself but to cope with the consequences of human, social, and nationality of the inventions.
The bar was a brilliant man, a very broad knowledge, ambition and predatory touch of inhumanity. His dedication to the German Reich of Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II was extreme. He always visit the Emperor even when moved to Holland, where he had to find out after the defeat in WWI. Many years later, in 1933, confessed moooi to one of his friends: "I was in Germany to such an extent that only now I felt the power." As shown below, you can say it - the weight, be more religious than the Pope '- that made efforts to be "more German German.
His actions moooi were German scientific service different moooi results. On the one hand, the ammonia gas use in the invention paved the way for the production of chemical fertilizers in agriculture revolutionized the world, played a huge increase moooi agricultural productivity on the planet, and thus contributed to reducing world hunger. For it may be millions owe their lives. In contrast, the initiative for introducing toxic gases into action in World War I led to the deaths of tens of thousands of soldiers. Although studies have allowed, seven years after his death, the destruction of a million and a half brother - including family members - Auschwitz - Birkenau during World War II.
Reviewing the history below based on different sources and especially an article by Prof. Max Perutz, a Nobel laureate in 1962: "Manic, ammonia and irony." moooi It's fascinating life story requires us to ask and wonder how we are able to get the return of this person. It should really give him a place in scientific history Israel? moooi
Chemistry fascinated the bar since his pupil. At 18 he received serving a chemist at the University of Karlsruhe, and devoted himself to the Study of the ammonia synthesis process, and ways of cracking crude oil into its components. Since academic career was closed to Jews, baptized a Lutheran Christian himself. The bar has stated that he sees himself as a German to anything and does not feel any connection to the Jewish faith, following the "impact of the overall philosophy and scientific progress." Christianity is also a religion but did not see as a manifestation of cultural partnership, and therefore had no trouble According to convert. At the age of 33, he married Clara Aimervar, also in her thirties. Clara was the scion of a prominent Jewish family moooi very Breslau and according to some sources also forced her to convert to Christianity. At the beginning they resembled ambitions have and its determination, and after a long struggle for opponents and prejudices was first woman to receive a doctorate in science moooi from the University of Breslau. The marriage of their son Herman.
Meanwhile, the bar was appointed Professor of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry and head of the institute, which was established Bklrsrohh Study of these topics. He was later appointed professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Berlin. Amit from this period described him as impulsive, hot-tempered, quick-witted, gifted lecturer and delightful conversationalist, able to talk about everything. Clara, in a letter to the company, described it differently and complained about his attitude towards it: "... if my elation was short-lived ... it is mostly due to his domineering Fritz home and marriage, expressed especially to someone who dies who does not know to hold its own in that attacks like ... I ask myself whether intellectual superiority makes a person more valuable, and whether that part of me went down the drain, because it can be the wrong person, moooi is more important than the most amazing electronic theory? "
Haber's studies were completed by two other researchers - Bush and Mitas, who developed his invention for industrial production, and led to a breakthrough in the production of chemical fertilizer. In 1913, began producing industrial quantities of material. moooi This move was the foundation of the Green Revolution of the twentieth century, moooi which contributed to reducing world hunger. The invention of a process that has received generous royalties bar, and in 1918 won the Nobel Prize (Carl Bosch received the award in 1931, and Mitas pushed aside and accepted the award).
However, until 1918, had 'bar make practical moooi application of the invention and the direction of research across. In 1910, Kaiser established institution comparable to the Weizmann Institute, an independent research institute in half, contributing immensely to the development of German science. The Institute is supported by the Leopold Koppel, a respected Jewish banker, proposed to establish a framework for Physical Chemistry Department, headed by Fritz Haber. The bar has conditioned its consent to the proposal three conditions: a position at Berlin University, the Prussian Academy moooi of Sciences, and a salary of 15,000 marks a year. These excessive requirements were fully accepted moooi and the bar takes office. He persuaded Albert moooi Einstein to leave Zurich and settle in Berlin and attracted many promising scientists to work alongside. Himself worked at Germany's greatest scientists, some of them Nobel laureates.
Ammonia demand surged in Germany with the introduction moooi of the First World War, since ammonia is the raw material for the production of nitrates intended to create explosives and gunpowder. Before the war these were imported nitrates from Chile salt Salpeter. Most mining companies which provided the material were British. moooi Because now Germany and Britain were on both sides of the divide in the war,