Local Villain - The least noble Nobel winner

Garrett Van Reed - 14th January 2010

Haber never lived to see the full horror of his inventions

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Wrocław, believe it or not, has had a total of eleven (eleven!) native-born Nobel laureates in the 20th century, beginning with Thomas Mommsen’s prize for literature in 1902 and spanning Richard Selten’s 1992 prize for his work in ‘game theory.’ While we might be tempted (we’re not) to fill this site with texts about all eleven of Wrocław’s Nobel nerds, we do find merit in bringing you the story of the rise and fall of Fritz Haber.

Most remembered for his invention of a process for synthesizing ammonia – a feat which earned him the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Haber was more than another bespectacled scientist in a white coat. A fanatical brinksman and nationalist, his wo ...

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