The Story of Fritz Haber
Norman, Ok: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. Fine in very good, price clipped dust jacket. xi+ 212 pp. with chronological list of Publications abd Lecture of Fritz Haber (beginning in 1890), bibliography, index. Illustrated with four family photographs. Biography of German chemist Fritz Haber (1868-1934), winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber Process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. His invention had important ramifications in the manufacture of fertilizers and explosives. Haber, a staunch German nationalist, was also known as "the father of chemical warfare", proposing the use of chlorine gas, was is heavier than air, to aid Germany in trench warfare, to break the deadlock in the Second Battle of Ypres. Later, without his involvement as he died in 1934, his work was used to develop Zyklon gas that was used to exterminate millions in German concentration camps in the World War II era. By 1933, Haber became so concerned about the rise of the Nazis to power that he resigned his position as Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute as well as university professor's position. Leaving Germany to travel to various countries, he was offered the Directorship of Sieff Research Institute in the British Administory in Palestine but died in Switzerland before beginning the job. Fine / very good. Item #E37246
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