Fritz Haber: The Monster That Fed The World

Fritz Haber: The Monster That Fed The World This week we cover a… Complicated man. He’s one of the most important scientific minds that we as humans have ever produced, he literally changed how we produce produce and fed the world. For this invention and what it did won a Nobel Prize. He won that prize the same year he was being hunted across Europe as a war criminal. Now, that’s a big jump, right? I feel like we skipped over the fact that Fritz Haber is the father of chemical warfare. The man that discovered how to pull nitrogen out of the atmosphere to make farming more effective, also personally ordered the deaths of 5,000 men at the Battle of Ypres in 1915. But that’s not the only thing that makes him a monster. He’s got A LOT of blood on his hands, some of it was that of his family. Somehow simultaneously a hero and a monster, one of the most important scientists of the 20th century and a man that is responsible for 100,000 deaths during WWI alone; not accounting for what his work would be turned into after his death in 1934.