Fritz Haber

Chemist who pulled bread from air by fixing nitrogen — and poison gas from the same genius.

Core Principles & Analysis

• His ammonia synthesis, industrialized with Bosch, won the 1918 Nobel Prize and feeds billions.
• He personally directed the first large chlorine gas attack at Ypres in 1915.
• A Jewish patriot forced out by the Nazis in 1933, he died in exile within a year.

Specifications & Metrics

• ERA: 1868 – 1934