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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 …show more content…

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

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