Fritz Haber a flawed hero or a damned scientist?
(11th grade, Class #2)
What makes a hero in your opinion? You can provide examples.
Watch the video above then answer the following questions:
Explain how did Haber changed the world for the best & for the worst.
The even row of portrait photographs of Lower Silesian Nobel Prize winners displayed on the wall of the club Salon Śląski, or Silesian Salon, one of the city‟s magic places, right across the street from the Baroque main building of the Wrocław University, is rather unorthodox as far as the standards of picture exhibitions go. Two of the laureates observe the cosy interior of the club having assumed postures that are somewhat unusual for respectable learned men: hanging upside down. One of the two is Philipp Lenard, the cathode ray discoverer who subsequently developed the conception of creative „Aryan physics‟ as opposed to secondary and mendacious „Jewish physics‟. The other one is Fritz Haber...
Fritz Haber, the damned scientist
Magda Dunikowska & Ludwik Turko
Institute of Theoretical Physics, University Wrocław, Poland
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