CHEMIST

Fritz Haber

1868 - 1934

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Fritz Haber (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁɪt͡s ˈhaːbɐ] ; 9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. This invention is important for the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives. It is estimated that a third of annual global food production uses ammonia from the Haber–Bosch process, and that this supports nearly half the world's population. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Haber has received more than 3,345,426 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Fritz Haber is the 12th most popular chemist, the 15th most popular biography from Poland (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Chemist.

Fritz Haber is most famous for inventing a process to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. This process was important because it allowed the production of fertilizer for food production.

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Page views of Fritz Habers by language

Over the past year Fritz Haber has had the most page views in the with 504,545 views, followed by German (120,312), and Japanese (80,011). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (244.79%), Malagasy (157.27%), and Sundanese (85.55%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Fritz Haber ranks 12 out of 602. Before him are Irène Joliot-Curie, Robert Boyle, Amedeo Avogadro, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, and Svante Arrhenius. After him are Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Wilhelm Ostwald, Otto Hahn, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, and Linus Pauling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Fritz Haber ranks 3. Before him are Nicholas II of Russia, and Maxim Gorky. After him are Miklós Horthy, Abdulmejid II, Karl Landsteiner, Constantine I of Greece, Robert Andrews Millikan, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Emanuel Lasker, and Gichin Funakoshi. Among people deceased in 1934, Fritz Haber ranks 4. Before him are Marie Curie, Paul von Hindenburg, and Lev Vygotsky. After him are Edward Elgar, Ernst Röhm, Albert I of Belgium, Raymond Poincaré, Kurt von Schleicher, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Sergey Kirov, and Nestor Makhno.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Fritz Haber ranks 15 out of 1,694. Before him are Lech Wałęsa (1943), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Günter Grass (1927), and Adam Mickiewicz (1798). After him are Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Marie Leszczyńska (1703), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Władysław Szpilman (1911), Wernher von Braun (1912), and Erich Ludendorff (1865).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Fritz Haber ranks 1. After him are Casimir Funk (1884), Walther Nernst (1864), Kurt Alder (1902), Friedrich Bergius (1884), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), and Antoni Grabowski (1857).

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