Yet this is the same chemist denounced by young German students today as a “murderer”. No-one personifies better than Fritz Haber the debate over science’s capacity for good and evil. And there is more to his dramatic life even than this. For Haber personifies too the tragedy of a Jew desperate to be a patriotic German, whose life was destroyed after the Nazis came to power. And in the cruellest...
Fritz Haber: Jewish chemist whose work led to Zyklon B
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