Fritz Haber (1868 - 1934) was a German chemist who received a noble prize for chemistry in the development of fixation of nitrogen from the air; synthetic ammonia; publishing a book on thermodynamics of technical gas reactions. He is recognized as the father of chemical warfare where he was appointed a consultant to the German War Office in developing gases and organizing attacks with gases such a chlorine in World War I. He studied in the University of Heidelberg, Berlin, and Charlottenburg. During 1904 he researched on electrolysis of solid salts. In addition he studied loss of energy by steam engines, turbines, and motors driven by fuel. Haber also produced a firedamp whistle for the protection of miners, quartz thread manometer for low gas pressures, and observed that "adsorption powers can be due to unsaturated valence forces of a solid body, which Langmuir fournded his theory of adsorption." Haber had knowledge in not just science but politics, history, and economics. Haber died of an illness in Basle in 1934.
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