SYMHC Classics: The Kaiser's Chemist -- Fritz Haber

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 August 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This 2011 episode from previous hosts Sarah and Deblina examines Fritz Haber's mixed legacy. The Nobel-Prize-winning Father of Chemical Warfare was responsible for fertilizers that fed billions, as well as poisonous gasses used during World War I. Tune in to learn more about Fritz's complicated life and work.

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0:30.7	Happy Saturday, everybody.
0:34.7	We have an episode coming up on the show that references back to chemical warfare in World War I.
0:40.4	So we thought we would share our previous episode on Fritz Haber,
0:44.2	who was the mastermind of Germany's chemical weapons program.
0:48.0	That was from previous hosts of the show, Sarah and DeBlena.
0:52.2	And just as a note, in addition to the discussions of chemical weapons and their effects,
0:57.1	this episode also includes some discussion of the suicides of people connected to Haber,
1:01.7	including his wife Clara, who took her own life in 1915.
1:05.6	This episode originally came out on December 12, 2011.
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1:23.5	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
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