Fritz Haber: In The Monster Who Fed The World

In the Monster Who Fed the World you learn about a German Jew named Fritz Haber. Haber was a genius chemist who learned how to take nitrogen out of the air and turn it into a liquid form to contain to use for fertilizer to help grow food for the overpopulated German nation and later the world. Unfortunately, some things and most things can have good and bad uses. Fritz Haber was born on December 9th, 1868. He was the son of a Jewish merchant in a small town. He had all ways longed for a better more impressive lifestyle. He was one of the first Jews to branch out into a wider society. He got his education at Breslau where he took a great interest in chemistry and he continued his passion to college. By the year 1890, Haber became a professor …show more content…
Then out of the tank would come liquid fertilizer. In the year 1909, he revealed this to the world. Each year 100 million tons of synthetic fertilizer is created by this method. For nearly all of the 7 billion people on earth as well as yourself. half of the nitrogen in your body comes from the Haber method. It stopped wars, fed children, and led to our modern age. This was Fritz Haber's dream. He wanted to do many things in his life and accomplished a lot of them. He served his fatherland while being praised for his brilliance. He had brought glory to his country as a German citizen. It was a story like one out of a book except it was real life. As he a Jewish child from a provincial town, and it had taken a toll on his personal life. His marriage started to fall apart though because of him always working and being away from home, but his work style paid off eventually as in the year 1911 he was able to move his family to the capitol. This was when he was given a job as a professor at the University of Berlin. After moving to Berlin he was socializing with the upper echelon of German society in the capital, meeting cabinet ministers as well as the Kaiser. This is the style of life he loved to as fed