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Nisha Kanabar 9R 22/1/02 The Haber Process During the first ten years of the twentieth century, the global necessitate for ammonia for use in fertilizers (in nitrate form) and in the production of explosives for war purposes and mining could only be fulfilled on a considerable extent. Because of this crisis, there was a great deal of research being made to discover ways of producing ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen. The problem was ultimately resolved in 1913, when Fritz Haber exposed a method now known as the "Haber Process" or the "Haber-Bosch Process". Haber relieved the world of their ammonia calamity when he discovered the "Haber Process" by combining both Nitrogen and Hydrogen. He was a German scientist, who received the Nobel peace prize in 1918 for his success in chemistry. He lived from 1868 to 1934. Fritz Haber was appointed chief of the German chemical warfare and assisted Germany greatly...

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