Haber Vs. Einstein

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Haber and Einstein being friends could have one have been one of the best things that happened chemistry but instead war and other priorities took over their lives as a whole. These events not only took over their lives but ultimately had thrown their wonderful friendship away. Both of these men being German scientist had bright futures with each other because in history we can see that their ideas had always been clashing which had created the special friendship they had. Through their time together in and out of the lab, they both really learn a lot from each other, but when life hits you in such a way such as war you have to do what you can to help and be a part of it.

Haber unlike Einstein had become a German patriot early on in World War I. Although he did not actually fight in the war for awhile he took a main role early on in the war for the Germans which was being a consultant for the German war office. Having this role, and as the war went on he began conducting many different experiments and drawing conclusions on many that he had done with chlorine gases. He eventually came to a brilliant idea, which was turning chlorine gas into a weapon for the Germans during the intense war that they were in. Although this was a brilliant idea there was
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After he began to make these new weapons for the army he became a real soldier and was in the front lines in Ypres, but was not in action until it was time for what he hoped would be a deadly poisonous gas attack. He had done this by using the thousands of steel cylinders full of chlorines gasses that were brought in, in position for the Germans to use when they needed to. Even with all this going on we can infer that Haber really never thought about his wife Clara when he made these decisions to go to war and take on the roles he did. He eventually realized to late when his wife Clara committed suicide in their garden back at home, but this also had not stopped him from his next

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