https://www.perplexity.ai/search/Who-is-Fritz-kSg0wtgUSombH0qTxfuzzg : important takeaway : ***The Haber-Bosch process enabled a dramatic increase in food production, supporting population growth from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 8 billion today, and is still used to "feed" half the worlds population, an achievement he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for in 1918. ***
this felt like a very good use of Perplexity in terms of "curiosity". PPLX nailed the main topic plus the nuances AKA he was also the father of chemical warfare, his process created the gas that would be used in World War 1 that has since been mostly outlawed by humanity. this aspect likely lead to his wife's suicide after the the battle in Ypres, Belguim-1915 against French/British soldiers. He also left his position in 1933 and moved to Switzerland in protest of the new Nazi race laws against Jewish people (that would lead to the holocaust) as he was against them, had many Jewish colleges he was encouraged to fire/remove from his team, and was Jewish himself (although converted to Christianity).