In the gallery of famous people tracing their origins to Wroc{ \l}aw, few are as controversial, as complex, or as tragic as Fritz Haber, ever more distant in the flux of time, yet still stirring emotions. He developed a method for the direct synthesis of ammonia from its elements and later pioneered chemical warfare on the battlefields of the First World War.

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Fritz Haber: The Damned Scientist