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Toxicological Sciences 55, 1-2 (2000)
Copyright © 2000 by the Society of Toxicology

Profiles in Toxicology

Fritz Haber: 1868–1934

Hanspeter Witschi1

Institute of Technology and Environmental Health, University of California, Davis, One Davis Road, Davis, California 95616

Received September 3, 1999; accepted September 30, 1999

Fritz Haber was not a toxicologist; he was a physical chemist. And yet he profoundly influenced the science of toxicology. "Haber's law" is well known to inhalation toxicologists. It is usually interpreted to mean that identical products of the concentration of an airborne agent and duration of exposure will yield similar biological responses (C x T = constant). The "Haber-Weiss reaction" is a fundamental mechanism in free-radical toxicology. However, to most toxicologists it comes as a surprise to learn that Fritz Haber's biggest contribution to science was the invention of a practical way to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen in the air (the Haber-Bosch nitrogen-fixation process), and that he was a Nobel Prize winner and a foreign member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Fritz Haber had a complex personality, and until recently, he was almost a forgotten man, but his scientific accomplishments were never disputed. Before World War I, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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