English

Fritz Haber: The Damned Scientist

History and Philosophy of Physics 2011-12-07 v2 Chemical Physics

Abstract

In the gallery of famous people tracing their origins to Wroc{\l}aw, few are as controversial, as complex, or as tragic as Fritz Haber, ever more distant in the flux of time, yet still stirring emotions. He developed a method for the direct synthesis of ammonia from its elements and later pioneered chemical warfare on the battlefields of the First World War.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1112.0949,
  title  = {Fritz Haber: The Damned Scientist},
  author = {Magda Dunikowska and Ludwik Turko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.0949},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

17 pages; Dedicated to the Fritz Haber Institute,Berlin, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary; German version of this article published in Angew. Chem. 2011, 123, 10226 - 10240; DOI: 10.1002/ange.201105425

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