RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
June 12, 2023 at 2:07 pm
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2023 at 2:46 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Fritz Haber married Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to receive a PhD in chemistry from German University. She was a pacifist and regarded chemical weapons a” perversion of the ideals of science” and “a sign of barbarity”. She shot herself with Fritz’s service pistol the night after Haber returned from supervising the first use of chemical weapons on the western front. The morning after her death by suicide Haber departed for the eastern front to supervise the first use of chemical weapons against the Russians.
After the end of WWI he remained involved in Germany’s secret continued development of chemical weapons. However his dedication to Germany’s war effort during the Great War and his prominence in the field of chemistry won him no reprieve. He was Jewish, and was thus dismissed from his positions, and exiled in 1933. He died in 1935.
A little known aspect of his post war work in Germany’s continued chemical warfare development is Japan secretly funded significant portion of that work.
After the end of WWI he remained involved in Germany’s secret continued development of chemical weapons. However his dedication to Germany’s war effort during the Great War and his prominence in the field of chemistry won him no reprieve. He was Jewish, and was thus dismissed from his positions, and exiled in 1933. He died in 1935.
A little known aspect of his post war work in Germany’s continued chemical warfare development is Japan secretly funded significant portion of that work.
