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Examples of Scientists - Fritz Haber
During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country - Fritz Haber -
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Fritz Haber's background
Fritz Haber was a German chemist awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Haber process, which synthesises ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen and made possible the large-scale manufacture of fertiliser that today helps feed roughly half the world's population. The same patriotic zeal that drove that achievement also led him to pioneer and personally oversee the weaponisation of chlorine and other poison gases for Germany in the First World War, work that has earned him the title 'father of chemical warfare'. He died in 1934, having fled Nazi Germany the previous year because of his Jewish ancestry, the same laws his own former ammonia process would ironically go on to help enforce through the Zyklon derivatives later used in the Holocaust, in which several of his relatives died.
What makes Fritz Haber such a great example?

Fritz Haber is a striking example of a chart that has to hold two opposite legacies at once: the same drive and chemical ingenuity that fed millions through synthetic fertiliser also killed thousands through chemical weapons. It is a good test of whether astrology can show that kind of morally double-edged genius, rather than a simple 'benefactor' or 'villain' pattern.
The chart shown is Fritz Haber's birthchart, together with transits for his 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, guessed at midday, around the outside. Aspect lines [traditional] are between the transits and his birthchart.
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