Fritz Haber
1868 – 1934 · Poland · Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1918
Ammonia synthesis feeds around half of humanity; also weaponised chlorine gas.
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Who shaped Fritz Haber, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Antoine Lavoisier
1743 – 1794 · Chemistry
Quantitative gas chemistry is the method behind ammonia synthesis.
Passed the work to2
- Mario Molina
1943 – 2020 · Chemistry
Industrial atmospheric chemistry created the planetary side-effects Molina later measured.
- Nikolai Vavilov
1887 – 1943 · Biology
Synthetic nitrogen transformed the yield question Vavilov's genetics addressed.
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Copernicus
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1580 – 1644Coined 'gas' and ran the first quantitative plant-growth experiment.
Antoine Lavoisier
1743 – 1794Named oxygen, killed phlogiston, founded modern chemistry; guillotined at 50.