Ironically, he'd been known in scientific circles as a staunch patriot, since he devoted his Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry to the war effort in World War I and had even supervised the release of chlorine gas into the French trenches at Ypres.
Like most German scientists of Jewish ancestry, he was forced into exile by Hitler's rise, although he worked just a few months in Britain before dying on a Swiss holiday. Ironically, he'd been known in scientific circles as a staunch patriot, since he devoted his Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry to the war effort in World War I and had even supervised the release of chlorine gas into the French trenches at Ypres. FTP name this chemist, whose method of synthesizing ammonia won him the 1918 Nobel in Chemistry.
Like most German scientists of Jewish ancestry, he was forced into exile by Hitler's rise, although he worked just a few months in Britain before dying on a Swiss holiday.
Fritz {Haber}