A JEWISH INVENTION THAT
FEEDS THE WORLD

Anonymous

(Investigator 224, 2025 September)



"Important Inventions by Jews" (Investigator 223), written by the AI Essay Writer TinyWow, listed Jewish inventions of worldwide benefit.

Omitted was an invention that helps to feed half the world's population and prevented worldwide famine.

Wikipedia says:

Carl Bosch along with Fritz Haber were voted the world's most influential chemical engineers of all time by members of the Institution of Chemical Engineers...

The Haber–Bosch process ... which captures nitrogen from the air and converts it to ammonia, has its hand in the process of the Green Revolution that has been feeding the increasing population of the world.



FRITZ HABER

Fritz Haber (1868-1934) was a German Jewish chemist, born in Prussia, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Work and discoveries he is noted for include:

•    Electrochemistry
•    Haber-Bosch Process
•    Chemical warfare

A Prussian edict in March 1812 determined that Jews were "to be treated as citizens of Prussia". This allowed the Haber family to assimilate into German society and establish themselves in business, politics, law and science.

Fritz Haber attended a mixed Catholic-Protestant-Jewish school, later several universities and completed a PhD in chemistry in 1891. He worked at various chemical companies and universities and converted to the Lutheran religion, becoming a Christian. His first wife, Clara, also a Jew and the first woman with a PhD in chemistry, converted to Christianity several years prior to their marriage which occurred in 1901.

In 1908 Haber authored the acclaimed book Thermodynamics of technical gas-reactions: seven lectures (1908).


INVENTION

The world, after 1900 CE was running short of natural fertilizer for agriculture. A cost effective, industrial process was needed that could make ammonia from nitrogen. The ammonia could then be used to make fertilizer.

Haber discovered a laboratory process for synthesizing ammonia.

Wikipedia says:

During his time at University of Karlsruhe from 1894 to 1911, Haber and his assistant Robert Le Rossignol invented the Haber–Bosch process, which is the catalytic formation of ammonia from hydrogen and atmospheric nitrogen under conditions of high temperature and pressure...

This invention is important for the large-scale synthesis of fertilisers and explosives. It is estimated that one-third of annual global food production uses ammonia from the Haber–Bosch process, and that this supports nearly half of the world's population...

Less commendable is that Haber was also a German nationalist and the "father of chemical warfare". He led the team of scientists which developed poisonous gases during World War I and proposed the use of heavier-than-air chlorine gas as a weapon to break the trench-warfare deadlock.

The Second Battle of Ypres in April-May 1915 began on April 22 with chlorine gas inflicting a 7-kilometre gap in the French front. The Germans in 1915 were concerned mainly with the Eastern, Russian front, therefore did not have sufficient troops on hand to properly exploit the April 22 success! The gas attack was also a case of try-it-out instead of large scale and thus allowed the Allies to prepare against its subsequent employment. Otherwise WWI might have finished two years earlier in Germany's favor.

Haber's work was later used by the Nazis to develop Zyklon B for the extermination of Jews in gas chambers during the Holocaust. Haber was not involved in this, in fact was forced because of his Jewish ancestry to resign from his teaching and work positions. He died while on his way to Israel.

Of Haber's pre-WWI work Wikipedia says:

To further develop the process for large-scale ammonia production, Haber turned to industry. Partnering with Carl Bosch at BASF [Germany's largest chemical and dye company], the process was successfully scaled up to produce commercial quantities of ammonia. The Haber–Bosch process was a milestone in industrial chemistry. The production of nitrogen-based products such as fertiliser and chemical feedstocks, which was previously dependent on acquisition of ammonia from limited natural deposits, now became possible using an easily available, abundant base—atmospheric nitrogen. The ability to produce much larger quantities of nitrogen-based fertilizers in turn supported much greater agricultural yields, supporting half the world's population...



CARL BOSCH

Carl Bosch (1874-1940) — the other name associated with the Haber-Bosch process — was brother in law of Fritz Haber and a German Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He was a pioneer in the science of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben one the world's largest chemical companies.

He obtained his doctorate in 1898 and got employment the following year at BASF.

In 1909, Haber and Bosch entered into partnership to adapt Haber's small-scale laboratory process for synthesizing ammonia into commercial scale production. By 1913 Haber's process of converting inert atmospheric nitrogen gas (N2) to biologically useful ammonia (NH3) was greatly expanded with high-pressure chemistry and better catalysts.

Ammonia by further chemical steps produces synthetic nitrate which has industrial applications in producing fertilizers, explosives and consumer goods.

The first full-scale Haber–Bosch plant was erected in Germany.

Wikipedia says:

...he was able to synthesize large amounts of ammonia, which was available for the industrial and agricultural fields [and] increased the agricultural yields throughout the world. This work won him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1931.

Today the Haber–Bosch process produces 100 million tons of nitrogen fertilizer every year...

A critic of many Nazi policies, including anti-Semitism, Bosch was gradually relieved of his high positions, and fell into depression and alcoholism....

The Haber–Bosch Process today consumes more than one percent of humanity's energy production and is responsible for feeding roughly one-third of its population. On average, one-half of the nitrogen in a human body comes from synthetically fixed sources, the product of a Haber–Bosch plant.




ETHICS, PROSPERITY and LIFE

Haber's invention in chemistry now helps to keep billions of people alive, including millions of Anti-Semites, by the increased food production it led to.

The stupidity of Jew-haters is firstly that racism is refuted by the science of genetics and secondly that it slows the progress of science. Copying the Jewish emphasis on education instead of expelling, kidnapping, killing or robbing Jews would have achieved many more great things. 

Israel's 2 million Arab citizens, for example, have Western standards of living and Western freedoms and education, whereas many Muslim countries from Africa to central Asia are mired in dictatorship, corruption, opposition to education, hostage taking, modern slavery, and poverty.

Hitler's Nazi regime expelled Germany's Jewish scientists and university professors for ideological and racist reasons after passing a law in 1933 that made the expulsions legal. The most famous Jewish academic who fled Germany was Albert Einstein who then warned President Roosevelt of a possible Nazi atomic bomb and this helped to get America's atomic bomb project started.
 
In Investigator #212, Origins of Modern Medical treatment, I included comment on the Christian input to modern food production:

• Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884) invented a mechanical reaper which sparked an agricultural revolution;
• Ferdinand Schumacher (1822-1908) and Henry Parsons Crowell (1855-1944) started the American
  cereals revolution;

•  George Washington Carver (1864-1943) developed techniques to improve depleted soils;
• Norman Ernest Borlaug (1914-2009), "Father Of The Green Revolution", developed high-yield, disease-   resistant wheat varieties which, by preventing the global famine expected in the 1970s, is said to have
  saved a billion lives.


Now we find there was also Fritz Haber, a Jewish Christian. The Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production and hence fertilizer surely helped prevent the global famine predicted for the 1970s, and helps also to keep half the human race alive!



Published 1968.
The Green Revolution  and  chemical  fertilizer
saved the human race from worldwide famine


 
References:

Paddock, William and Paul 1968 Famine 1975! Weidenfeld and Nicolson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Bosch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber

https://www.famousscientists.org/carl-bosch/