Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World

Re:Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World by jzl on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @05:00AM (#16365994)

There is an incredible book about this topic called "The Alchemy of Air"@, which I highly recommend. It's one of the best non-fiction science books I've ever read. Also available on Audible.

Fritz Haber's life story is intertwined with Einstein's and the book pairs extremely well with Walter Isaacson's Einstein biography, which is a MUST read (or audiobook listen).

@ - Full title: "The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler"

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Re:Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World by Pulcinella on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @09:22AM (#16367278)

I second this recommendation.

It also covers Carl Bosch, who took Haber’s process and industrialized it at BASF. Haber got the process to work in a small bespoke quartz reactor, which obviously wouldn’t scale.

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Re:Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World by nvahalik on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @07:43AM (#16366680)

Thomas Hager wrote that book along with “The Demon under the Microscope”. Excellent works.

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