He probably saved more lives than anyone in history. And he understood how anti-human and anti-poor modern environmentalism is.
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He probably saved more lives than anyone in history. And he understood how anti-human and anti-poor modern environmentalism is.
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I was puzzled why you linked to an article form 1997 until I realized that Tuesday would have been his 100th Birthday. Yes, his work and success should be more well known. The only ones who might have contributed more to improving human lives would have been the chemists (Adolph Frank and Nikodem Caro) who discovered how to make artificial fertilizer. Sadly neither was recognized by the Noble Prize Committee for their work despite the huge impact that had on modern high productivity agriculture.
Haber and Bosch got Nobel prizes. So someone did get a Nobel prize for making fertilizer.
Yes, they did, but their process wasn’t the first, just more efficient. As a side note, Dr. Haber is also known as the father of chemical warfare because of his work promoting it to the German Army, but apparently the Nobel Prize committee wasn’t aware of it when they made the award in 1918.