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Fritz Haber
Haber was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocaw, Poland), into a Hasidic family. His was one of the oldest families of that town. Haber later converted from strict Judaism to Christianity, most probably to escape the antisemitism of his day.[1] His mother died during childbirth. His father was a well-known merchant in the town. From 1886 until 1891, he studied at the University of Heidelberg under Robert Bunsen, at the University of Berlin (today the Humboldt University of Berlin) in the group of A. W. Hofmann, and at the Technical College of Charlottenburg (today the Technical University of Berlin) under Carl Liebermann. He married Clara Immerwahr during 1901. Their son, Hermann, was born in 1902. Before starting his own academic career, he worked at his father's chemical business and in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zrich with Georg Lunge.
biography
1 # During World War I he directed Germany's chemical warfare activities, which included the introduction of poison gas. 2# Haber won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the Haber process for synthesizing ammonia from its elements. He also did studies of autoxidation and pyrolysis.
Achievements & Discoveries
Acknowledgement
http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=10696 http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Haber-Fr.html
how his discoveries impacted on the society and human lives
it is most important change affecting the world’s population— from 1.6 billion in 1900 expanded to today’s 6 billion—would not have been possible without the synthesis of ammonia. Haber’s work made possible the synthetic nitrogen fertilizers that were the catalyst for the Green Revolution, which in turn made possible the massive population growth of the world in the last century.
