Haber pioneered in electrochemistry and thermodynamics and won the Nobel Prize for his synthesis of ammonia, a process essential for both fertilizer and explosives. His dedication to work spurred his ...

Few people change the world even once. Fritz Haber changed it twice -- for better and for worse. The first time came in late March 1909. Haber, a young professor at the Technical University of ...

It has been claimed that as many as two out of five humans on the planet today owe their existence to the discoveries made by one brilliant German chemist. Image caption, Fritz Haber's inventions both ...

Until a decade ago, no adequate book-length biography existed of Fritz Haber (1868–1934), the ingenious German chemist best known for the industrial Haber-Bosch nitrogen-fixing process to make ammonia ...

For a crash course in irony, look no further than the life of Fritz Haber, the Jewish chemist whose scientific research led to the invention of Zyklon B, the cyanide-based pesticide used in death ...

Nitrogen is crucial to plant life, and nitrogen-based fertilizers were essential for crops at the start of the 20th Century to produce more food. Even though there is limited supply of usable nitrogen ...

Yet this is the same chemist denounced by young German students today as a "murderer". No-one personifies better than Fritz Haber the debate over science's capacity for good and evil. And there is ...