The Nobel Winner Who Created Chemical Weapons

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]In 1918, Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize for saving humanity from starvation. The same year, his chemistry killed over a million people. Haber invented a process that feeds half the world's population today. Without it, billions would have starved, but he also created chlorine gas, the first chemical weapon used in modern warfare. His own wife begged him to stop. When he refused, she took his service pistol and shot herself. Years later, the Nazis he helped arm would force him into exile. The man who fed the world became the father of chemical warfare.