Nobel Prize for Fritz Haber

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On 10 December 1918, Prof. Dr. Fritz Haber is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his „methods of synthesizing ammonia from the elements nitrogen and hydrogen“ on which, to this day, the production of artificial fertilizers is based. However, Haber’s biography has a dark side: His experiments during the First World War with phosgene and chlorine gas make him the „father of poison gas weapons“, which were first used by the German side during the war.