Master Mind The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare

Name: Master Mind The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare
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ISBN: 9780060562724

ISBN-10: 0060562722

ISBN-13: 9780060562724

Edition: 2005

Authors: Daniel Charles

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FRITZ HABER -- a Nobel laureate in chemistry, a friend of Albert Einstein, a German Jew and World War I hero -- may be the most important scientist you have never heard of. The Haber-Bosch process, which he invented at the turn of the twentieth century, revolutionized agriculture by converting nitrogen to fertilizer in quantities massive enough to feed the world. The invention has become an essential pillar for life on earth; some two billion people on our planet could not survive without it. Yet this same process supplied the German military with explosives during World War I, and Haber orchestrated Germany's use of an entirely new weapon -- poison gas. Eventually, Haber's efforts led to…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/2/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Preface


Young Fritz


Diversions and Conversion


Ambition


Clara


The Enthusiast


Fixation


Myths and Miracles


Empire Calls


"The Greatest Period of His Life"


Like Fire in the Hands of Children


Dispossession