Fritz Haber, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, created synthetic fertilizer that feeds half the world's population, saving billions of lives, yet simultaneously pioneered deadly chemical weapons in World War I and his pesticide research later became Zyklon B used in Nazi death camps, demonstrating how scientific knowledge can be applied for both humanitarian and destructive purposes.
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One man saved a billion lives. The same man helped kill millions more. Fritz Haber created synthetic fertilizer that feeds half the world today.
>> [music] >> He won the Nobel Prize. He was called the savior of humanity. But Haber had a darker side. He pioneered chemical weapons in World War I. Deadly chlorine gas that burned soldiers alive in the trenches. His own wife begged him to stop. When he refused, she took his service pistol and shot herself in the heart. Years later, Haber's pesticide research became Zyklon B, the gas used in Nazi death camps.
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