Fritz Haber: Great Minds

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Hank introduces us to the brilliant and heartless Fritz Haber, a great mind who is considered "the father chemical warfare," but who also made discoveries and innovations that helped lead to the Green Revolution which is credited with preventing the starvation of over a billion people. Like SciShow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Follow SciShow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Sources: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1918/haber-bio.html http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/jul/fritzhaber/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nitrogen-fertilizer-anniversary http://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/famous-scientists/chemists/fritz-haber-info.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13015210 http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=9408 http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/haberbosch.html http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=10696 The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/250759/Fritz-Haber/260673/Chemical-warfare Images: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fritz_Haber.png [public domain] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Second_Battle_of_Ypres.jpg [public domain] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Clara_Immerwahr.jpg [public domain] http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/images/content/95643main_dead_zone02STILL.0240.tif [public domain] http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/September11/Features/Photos/feature4.jpg {public domain]

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