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Stuff You Missed in History Class

The Kaiser's Chemist: Fritz Haber

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History

4.224.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2011

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Fritz Haber has a 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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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, from HowstuffWorks.com.

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Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Sarah Dowdy, and I'm DeBlinachocker Bordy.

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And DeBlinach, I'm sure you've noticed, but we talk a lot about these father of subjects,

0:52.7

like Alan Turing, the father of computer science, I think also the father of artificial intelligence.

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Recently Alphonse Bertial, who is the father of the mug shot, that's a pretty good one.

1:04.7

And then Harvey Weiley too.

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Yes, the pure food father.

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Yeah, exactly.

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So today's subject, German chemist Fritz Haber, might have one of the more dubious father of titles.

1:17.7

He's commonly considered the father of chemical warfare for his work during World War One.

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That sounds pretty bad already, but it's worth getting it out there right now that that's not a passively earned title either.

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He's not a scientist who made a discovery and then watched as it was applied by other workers,

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