When scientists warned that the world would not be able to produce enough food to feed its growing human population in the 20th century, he listened. Haber was ultimately appointed professor of physical chemistry and electrochemistry at the Karlshruhe Institute of Technology. After studying at the University of Berlin, he transferred to the University of Heidelberg in 1886 and studied under the famed German chemist Robert Bunsen. Elizabeth Classical School, where he took an early interest in chemistry.
For his efforts directing a team of scientists on the front lines in World War I, he would become known as the father of chemical warfare.įritz Haber was born in Breslau, Prussia (now Wroclaw, Poland), in 1868, and educated at the St. But in the winter of 1915, Haber’s thoughts turned to annihilating the Allies. In 1918, Haber would be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in developing a method of synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen in the air-the process that enabled the production of fertilizer in quantities that revolutionized agriculture worldwide. With thousands of French, British, Belgian and Canadian forces dug in around the town, the Germans turned to Fritz Haber. This time, they were determined to launch their first major attack on the Western Front. Months before, fighting with many young and untested soldiers, the Germans had taken heavy casualties there in a battle they called the Massacre of the Innocents of Ypres. In April of 1915, Allied forces were battling the German Army for control of Ypres, a Flemish town in western Belgium.
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