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Fritz Haber

A man with white hair and a beard wearing glasses and a dark suit with a bow tie, set against a dark background.

German chemist (1868–1934). Won the 1918 Nobel in Chemistry for fixing nitrogen from the air. Also directed Germany's chemical weapons programme during the First World War, personally supervising the first large-scale chlorine gas attack at Ypres in 1915; his wife Clara, also a chemist, shot herself days afterwards. Forced from Germany in 1933 under the Nazi racial laws despite his service, and died in exile the following year.

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