What Is Fritz Haber A Hero

Fritz Haber, born on December 9, 1868 was a German physical chemist who greatly shaped the world. Considered to be the "father of chemical warfare" for his years of pioneering poisonous gases during World War I, it is easy for one to forget Haber’s positive contributions to the science industry. Despite the lack of moral of Fritz Haber’s character, he was brilliant and ambitious and his ideas have indeed made the world a better place.

First and foremost, Haber is credited with creating a process responsible for feeding a starving world and allowing the population to grow to the current 7 billion people. The transition into the 20th century was a time when amount of crops grown were unable to sustain the rapidly growing population. In order

After all, using the same process that he did to create ammonia, Haber also managed to create explosives, which were deadly, and took countless lives. Although Fritz Haber supervised the poisoned gas program during World War I, it is essential for one to understand his thought process. He used his brilliance and chemistry knowledge for what he felt was the greater good, as any person would do. The main matter is what each individual feels is the greater good. For Harber, his dream was to create a strong and powerful Germany; therefore, he did what he felt was “correct” and beneficial for Germany, even if his actions lacked any moral in the eyes of other people. As a result, he was a celebrated hero by the Germans because his genius had benefited them and brought them victory during the war. At the same time, he was being called a war criminal and a monster by the United States and the other Allies, because Haber’s contribution in World War I was responsible for the death of thousands of their soldiers. In spite of all this, Haber had no ill intention with his ideas and creations. He was in no way a racist but rather, an ardent German nationalist who did everything he possibly could to help his country. For instance, when Germany lost the war and forced to pay reparations, Haber experimented to find ways to pay for the reparations by himself by developing a new process. He attempted to go into the sea water which contained very small levels of gold, and tried for several years to distill gold from the ocean’s water. This was a failure, however it proved his patriotism and his dedication to Germany, which ironically was the country he would later be banned from, due to his Jewish heritage. Several of Haber’s most innocent appearing activities turned out to have global consequences. Among these was his creation of a pesticide called Zyklon B. In subsequent