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Why doesn't he get more mention in textbooks if he's literally responsible for the quadrupling of agriculture productivity and the world population being so high?

Did his work with chemical weapons really offset the invention of a process to make ammonia from atmospheric Nitrogen? Like that's pretty huge all things considered I even think the number of people who would die of starvation if not for his fertilizers is more than the soldiers killed by his gas weapons, no?

"Nearly 80% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber-Bosch process."
Howarth, R. W. (2008). "Coastal nitrogen pollution: a review of sources and trends globally and regionally". Harmful Algae. 8: 14–20. doi:10.1016/j.hal.2008.08.015.

"The food production for half the world's current population depends on this method for producing nitrogen fertilizers."
Smil, Vaclav (2004). Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262693134

>>7491871
>google Haber process
>pic related pops up
>those fucking glasses

How about Fritz Haber?

Does anyone know of a good book on the following:
Fritz Haber (known for synthesis of ammonia), Wallace Carothers (synthesis of nylon 66), Edward Teller (hydrogen bomb), Robert Oppenheimer (atomic bomb), Max Planck (quantum physics), organic chemistry or pharmacy

Fritz Haber

Pioneer of chemical warfare killing thousands in WW1

His work was later developed and used in WW2 (concentration camps)

Synthesizing ammonia lead to massive increases in agricultural yield and global population boom. Will likely to be a major contributor to climate change now and in the future.

Development of insecticides and fertilizer has lead to countless ecological damage worldwide.

>Haber played a major role in the development of chemical warfare in World War I. Part of this work included the development of gas masks with adsorbent filters. In addition to leading the teams developing chlorine gas and other deadly gases for use in trench warfare, Haber was on hand personally to aid in its release despite its proscription by the Hague Convention of 1907 (to which Germany was a signatory)...
>...Regarding war and peace, Haber once said, "During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country."
>He married Clara Immerwahr in 1901. Clara was also a chemist and the first woman to earn a PhD at the University of Breslau. She was opposed to Haber's work in chemical warfare. On 15 May 1915, following an argument with Haber over the subject, she committed suicide in their garden shooting herself in the heart with his service revolver, possibly in response to his having personally overseen the first successful use of chlorine at the Second Battle of Ypres on 22 April 1915.[14][15] That same morning, Haber left for the Eastern Front to oversee gas release against the Russians.[16] Haber left behind his grieving 13-year-old son Herrman, who had been the one to discover his dying mother.[17]

No Haber?

Or am I missing the point of this tier list?