Fritz Haber
All of the food that we eat, do you ever wonder how we get it? his food is possible because of Fritz Haber. Who was Fritz Haber? Fritz Haber was a German chemist who was known for creating the Haber-Bosch process, a process that was used to create the world's first synthetic fertilizer ammonia. This process was made it extremely easy and cheap to produce fertilizer, and solved the world's food crisis at the time. Infact this process was so good that it is still commonly used today to grow most of food that we consume.
Fritz Haber was born on December 9, 1868, in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). He was the only child of Jewish parents Siegfried Haber and Paula Haber, but shortly after his birth on December 31, 1868 his mother Paula died from birth complications and he was raised alone by his father.
As a child Haber had a great passion for chemistry and was influenced by his father's occupation as a successful importer of natural dyes and pigments. Haber would usually do chemistry
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Haber continued his studies until 1933 when new Nazism laws took over and since he was Jewish he basically lost everything he had. Soon afterwards he moved to England but because of heart problems and England’s cold weather at the time, he then later to Switzerland. On January 29, 1934 Fritz Haber died Congestive heart failure at Basel, Switzerland.
Fritz Haber now remains as one of the most controversial figures of all time, he was called the “The Monster That Fed The World” and many other names as well. His work may have killed millions of people but he also saved millions more, the people that he saved outweighs the people that he killed and it’s not entirely his fault as he always said ‘During peacetime a scientist belongs to the World, but during wartime he belongs to his
Heinrich Himmler was born on October 7, 1900 in Munich, Germany. Born to a Roman Catholic family, his parents were his father, Joseph Gebhard Himmler, a school teacher, and his mother, Anna Maria Himmler. He had two brothers, Gebhard Ludwig Himmler and Ernst Hermann Himmler.
After his father died in 1903, his mother allowed him to drop out of his school and 2 years later, he went to Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria in order to become an artist. He failed in entrance exam and decided to remain in Vienna as a casual laborer and watercolor painter. A year later, he tried to take entrance exam and he failed again. While he run out of money, he moved into a homeless shelter and remained for several years. During his time in Vienna, he learned to hate non Germans. He was a German-speaking Austrian and considered himself as a German.
Adolf was born on April 20, 1889 and he grew up in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary or present day Austria. He lived with his father and mother, Alois and Klara Hitler. Adolf had three sisters and four brothers. Some were from previous marriages on his father’s side. His father, Alois Hitler, didn’t show much interest in Adolf. Alois and Klara’s marriage seemed incomplete. After the birth of their first born son, Gustav Hitler, Ida Hitler came along. Ida and Gustav were both just small children when they both caught diphtheria in the winter of 1886-87 and died. Then during Klara’s third pregnancy, Otto Hitler, was born. Days after the infant was alive, he became deathly ill and died. Adolf Hitler was the couple's fourth child. The couple also had two more children after Adolf, Paula and Edmund Hitler. Edmund died of the measles at age five. Paula and Adolf were the only two of six children to live into adulthood. Adolf was also a sickly child, and his parents were
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Fritz Haber was a contested recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a process using atmospheric nitrogen for ammonia synthesis, primarily due to his wartime efforts on behalf of Germany. The Haber Process was used by the Germans to make explosives during World War I after access to nitrates were cut off by Allied blockades (The Nobel Foundation, 2014). Additionally, Haber developed chemical weapons used against Allied forces. Later controversy was surely stirred by the fact that Haber developed the poisonous gas, Zyklon B, used at Auschwitz. In an ironic twist of fate, Haber was Jewish by birth (Manchester, 2002).
Heinrich himmler , the architect of the holocaust and considered to be the biggest mass murderer ever , by some ( although it's really Josef Stalin ) . The holocaust would not have happened if it wasn't for this man. He tried to breed a master race of Nordic appearance , the aryan race . His plans for racial purity were needed by hitlers vanity in making rash military decisions rather than letting generals make them, thus ending the war prematurely. Himmler was captured after after the war . He unsuccessfully tried to negotiate with the west , and the west, and was genuinely ns hocked to be treated as a criminal upon capture . He committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule he had bit upon.
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Because of Fritz Haber this world is a better place. His discoveries helped feed Germany and had many good intentions despite the later events. In order to feed Germany Haber figured out how to make nitrogen out of the air in order to make the soil fertile for food growth. This new discovery helped increase the population and stopped the starvation in Germany. He later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his great accomplishments. His discoveries later led to terrible things done in the war, such as gas and bombs used to kill others. The gas he used to grow food was used to create a “chlorine wall” to kill all soldiers in the trenches. Haber was very proud of what he was able to do for his country, but his sense of nationalism overpowered his
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