Fritz Haber

Fritz Haber (German: Fritz Haber, December 9, 1868 - January 29, 1934), a Jewish-German chemist, won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of the industrial Haber process for synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. The Haber process was important in the manufacture of fertilizers and explosives. Half of the world's population currently relies on fertilizers produced this way for food production. Haber and Born jointly proposed the Born-Haber cycle as a method for evaluating the lattice energy of ionic solids. He is also known as the "Father of Chemical Weapons" for his work developing and deploying chlorine and other poison gases as chemical weapons during World War I.