Posted by blunosr on September 13, 2014 at 21:06:07 from (66.183.227.200):
In Reply to: Farm advancement posted by JWalker on September 13, 2014 at 11:33:15:
I'll agree with Janicholson, the Haber Process for ammonia production. The beginnings of chemical fertilizer. Fritz Haber won the Nobel prize for that process. It was the only Nobel prize ever to be contested by the scientific community. Haber was a real piece of work... fascinating story.
All right, just a bit of it. He was a German Chemist and he invented zyklon B, which was a gas used to de-louse uniforms. Colourless and odourless, he had to put an odour in it so the workers could detect it. They used to park entire trains in tunnels, seal up the tunnels, then de-louse the entire train. You can imagine what ideas the German military got from that...
He also invented gas warfare, and lobbied very hard to get it approved for trials. He personally opened the valves for the first release at Ypres. Later, two successive gas blow-backs burned one German corporal's lungs so bad he could no longer run, so he was drummed out of the military... and went into politics.
Haber's Wife was so upset by these gas attacks that she confronted him, seized his service revolver and shot herself. Haber went to the Front the next day, leaving others to deal with her funeral.
Haber was a German patriot to the end of his days, and the ironic bit, he was also Jewish.
A fascinating story. But his Haber process, which was also used to make explosives, has been responsible for saving billions of people from starvation... Hence the Nobel Prize.
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