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    Who was the German scientist and propagator of artificial fertilizer who in the last year of World War I was awarded a Nobel Prize for Science, although he was also the propagator of the use of poison gas in that same war?

    Question #124373. Asked by flem-ish. (Dec 08 11 4:10 AM)


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    		Fritz Haber

    http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1918/haber-bio.html

    "Haber then undertook the work on the fixation of nitrogen from the air for which he was given the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1918 (awarded in 1919)."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber


    Dec 08 11, 6:25 AM

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