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Daniel Charles tells us about the rise and fall of Fritz Haber, the winner the 1918 Nobel Prize for chemistry. At the beginning of the 20th century, he invented a fertilization process that helped increase agricultural productivity, and which billions of people still rely on to help feed them. But he also holds the dubious distinction of creating poison gas for Germany during World War I, an invention which was developed in World War II to kill millions in Nazi concentration camps. Mr. Charles’s book is titled Master Mind.

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