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Fritz Haber

FRITS HAH-ber
Agriculture, General and Allied Sciences

The chemist who pulled fertilizer out of the air. Haber's 1909 synthesis of ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen, industrialized by Carl Bosch, broke agriculture's oldest constraint and now feeds roughly half of humanity. The same man directed Germany's chemical weapons program in the First World War, a duality every honest account of him carries; he received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1868 1
Death Year
1934 1
Nationality
German 1
Defining Contribution
Synthesis of ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen (the Haber-Bosch process) 1
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Demonstrated by Haber in 1909, industrialized by Carl Bosch at BASF

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1. Fritz Haber (Wikipedia)
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    This invention is important for the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives.
  • Works In: Agricultural Chemistry, Lead
    This invention is important for the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives.
  • In Group: Agricultural Chemists and Agrochemical Scientists, Lead
    Fritz Jakob Haber (German: [ˈfʁɪt͡s ˈhaːbɐ] ; 9 December 1868-29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
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