CHEMIST

Fritz Haber

1868 - 1934

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Fritz Jakob Haber (German: [ˈfʁɪt͡s ˈhaːbɐ] ; 9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. This invention is important for the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives. It is estimated that a third of annual global food production uses ammonia from the Haber–Bosch process, and that this food supports nearly half the world's population. For this work, Haber has been called one of the most important scientists and industrial chemists in human history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fritz Haber is the 25th most popular chemist (down from 12th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Poland (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Chemist.

Fritz Haber is most famous for inventing a process to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. This process was important because it allowed the production of fertilizer for food production.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Fritz Haber ranks 25 out of 602. Before him are William Ramsay, Adolf Windaus, Ernst Chain, Eduard Buchner, John Macleod, and George Washington Carver. After him are John Fenn, Friedrich Wöhler, Wilhelm Ostwald, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Hans Adolf Krebs, and Otto Wallach.

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Among people born in 1868, Fritz Haber ranks 6. Before him are Nicholas II of Russia, Maxim Gorky, Robert Falcon Scott, Karl Landsteiner, and Miklós Horthy. After him are Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, John Nance Garner, Abdulmejid II, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Andrews Millikan, and Constantine I of Greece. Among people deceased in 1934, Fritz Haber ranks 6. Before him are Marie Curie, Paul von Hindenburg, Lev Vygotsky, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and Edward Elgar. After him are Ernst Röhm, Raymond Poincaré, Albert I of Belgium, Nestor Makhno, Kurt von Schleicher, and Sergey Kirov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Fritz Haber ranks 19 out of 1,694. Before him are David Ben-Gurion (1886), Günter Grass (1927), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), and Wisława Szymborska (1923). After him are Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Eric of Pomerania (1381), Otto Stern (1888), Wernher von Braun (1912), Janusz Korczak (1878), and Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Fritz Haber ranks 1. After him are Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Walther Nernst (1864), Kurt Alder (1902), Friedrich Bergius (1884), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Casimir Funk (1884), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Richard Abegg (1869), and Ignacy Mościcki (1867).

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