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Fritz Haber was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1918 for producing synthetic ammonia.

He was born Jewish but converted from the faith in an attempt to placate the Nazi regime. His first wife committed suicide at a dinner party to protest his work on chemical weapons during the war. He was driven from the country for being Jewish despite his best efforts to claim he was not. His own work on poisonous gases lead other scientists to employ its use in the Nazi death camps. He later committed suicide himself in 1946.

I'd say that his ethnicity for being a Jew effected his life drastically, but since he left his faith, sadly, he was lost and that is why he ultimately killed himself.

2007-02-12 12:31:54 · answer #1 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 0 0

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