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Fritz Haber: The Man Who Invented Chemical Warfare

Behind the Bastards

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Faber, a Brilliant Scientist

In the early 19 hundreds, prominent scientists start to realize that there's a mass of famine on the way. Fertilizer isn't an easy thing to come by in the natural world because there's only so much of it in the soil and it's depleted by growing crops. Fritz fritz was not at all interested in fixing the nitrogen problem out of a desire to stop a famine. Instead, what got him volved was the fact that a guy he considered a rival, a scientist named nurst, was also working on the nitrogen problem. He directs his considerable intellect to the problem ofnitrogen sucking out of the sky.

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