In 1918 Haber won the physics/chemistry Nobel Prize, yet thousands wondered whether he deserved it. For he was considered a heartless person, as he purposefully made inventions to kill. Firstly, by finding a local way to make ammonium, an important component in explosives, and then he made Zyklon B, the gas used in the holocaust. Yet to say he was patriotic would be an understatement, even though he was jew, he loved Germany more than anything, even his wife’s suicide didn’t stop him from helping his country survive 4 years in the first world war. So when nazism rised, at the start of the second world war, he was fired from his job, and sent out of his country. That was the year he got into depression, and died the following year, in 1934.

Nitrates, found in saltpetre are the main element required to make an explosive. Saltpetre is found in South Asia and Latin America, none of which are near Germany, and since their navy had been completely blocked, they were stuck inside, so they had to make their nitrate

locally. That is when Haber came in, he discovered that adding oxygen (O2) and ammonia (2NH3), would become nitrogen oxide (N2O) and water (H2O). Then converting nitrogen oxide to nitric acid would be …show more content…
Yet the reaction is not straightforward, and does not always work. For this, Haber developed, what is today called the Haber Process. In which he mixes and compress hydrogen and nitrogen gas in a pressure vessel, that contains a special type of catalyst to increase the rate of the reaction, then the process converts the ammonia gas into a liquid form, as to prevent it from decomposing. As mentioned earlier, the reaction isn’t always effective, and there could be hydrogen and nitrogen residue, then the machine ‘recycles’ it back, sending it back to the start, so that no gas is