Fritz Haber: The Damned Scientist
arXiv:1112.0949 · doi:10.1002/anie.201105425
Abstract
In the gallery of famous people tracing their origins to WrocÅaw, 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.
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