Chemist.∼Clara Immerwahr - one of the first women to get her PhD. Killed herself after her husband Fritz Haber, himself a chemical genius unleashed the use of chemical weapons on the world in WWI.
She was born June 21, 1870 in Polkendorf near Breslau, Silesia Province, Kingdom of Prussia (present-day Poland) and died May 2, 1915, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany. She graduated from the University of Wroclaw in 1900. She was the first women awarded a doctorate in Chemistry in Germany. She was also an active women's rights activist. She was married to Fritz Haber from 1901-1915. They had one child, Hermann Haber.
Shortly after Haber's return from Belgium, Immerwahr, who was a pacifist, and was troubled by Haber's work on chemical weapons, shot herself in the chest using Haber's military pistol. She died in her son's arms on 2 May. The morning after her death, Haber left to stage the first gas attack against the Russians on the Eastern Front.
Fritz Haber eventually fled the Nazis in Germany and died in Basel, Switzerland in 1934. His and Clara's ashes were buried together in a cemetery in Basel. Subsequently, their son Hermann Haber emigrated to the United States, where he committed suicide in 1946. Ludwig ("Lutz") Fritz Haber (1921–2004), the son of Fritz Haber and his second wife, Charlotte, published a book on the history of poison gas, The Poisonous Cloud (1986).
She was born June 21, 1870 in Polkendorf near Breslau, Silesia Province, Kingdom of Prussia (present-day Poland) and died May 2, 1915, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany. She graduated from the University of Wroclaw in 1900. She was the first women awarded a doctorate in Chemistry in Germany. She was also an active women's rights activist. She was married to Fritz Haber from 1901-1915. They had one child, Hermann Haber.
Shortly after Haber's return from Belgium, Immerwahr, who was a pacifist, and was troubled by Haber's work on chemical weapons, shot herself in the chest using Haber's military pistol. She died in her son's arms on 2 May. The morning after her death, Haber left to stage the first gas attack against the Russians on the Eastern Front.
Fritz Haber eventually fled the Nazis in Germany and died in Basel, Switzerland in 1934. His and Clara's ashes were buried together in a cemetery in Basel. Subsequently, their son Hermann Haber emigrated to the United States, where he committed suicide in 1946. Ludwig ("Lutz") Fritz Haber (1921–2004), the son of Fritz Haber and his second wife, Charlotte, published a book on the history of poison gas, The Poisonous Cloud (1986).
Chemist.∼Clara Immerwahr - one of the first women to get her PhD. Killed herself after her husband Fritz Haber, himself a chemical genius unleashed the use of chemical weapons on the world in WWI.
She was born June 21, 1870 in Polkendorf near Breslau, Silesia Province, Kingdom of Prussia (present-day Poland) and died May 2, 1915, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany. She graduated from the University of Wroclaw in 1900. She was the first women awarded a doctorate in Chemistry in Germany. She was also an active women's rights activist. She was married to Fritz Haber from 1901-1915. They had one child, Hermann Haber.
Shortly after Haber's return from Belgium, Immerwahr, who was a pacifist, and was troubled by Haber's work on chemical weapons, shot herself in the chest using Haber's military pistol. She died in her son's arms on 2 May. The morning after her death, Haber left to stage the first gas attack against the Russians on the Eastern Front.
Fritz Haber eventually fled the Nazis in Germany and died in Basel, Switzerland in 1934. His and Clara's ashes were buried together in a cemetery in Basel. Subsequently, their son Hermann Haber emigrated to the United States, where he committed suicide in 1946. Ludwig ("Lutz") Fritz Haber (1921–2004), the son of Fritz Haber and his second wife, Charlotte, published a book on the history of poison gas, The Poisonous Cloud (1986).
She was born June 21, 1870 in Polkendorf near Breslau, Silesia Province, Kingdom of Prussia (present-day Poland) and died May 2, 1915, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany. She graduated from the University of Wroclaw in 1900. She was the first women awarded a doctorate in Chemistry in Germany. She was also an active women's rights activist. She was married to Fritz Haber from 1901-1915. They had one child, Hermann Haber.
Shortly after Haber's return from Belgium, Immerwahr, who was a pacifist, and was troubled by Haber's work on chemical weapons, shot herself in the chest using Haber's military pistol. She died in her son's arms on 2 May. The morning after her death, Haber left to stage the first gas attack against the Russians on the Eastern Front.
Fritz Haber eventually fled the Nazis in Germany and died in Basel, Switzerland in 1934. His and Clara's ashes were buried together in a cemetery in Basel. Subsequently, their son Hermann Haber emigrated to the United States, where he committed suicide in 1946. Ludwig ("Lutz") Fritz Haber (1921–2004), the son of Fritz Haber and his second wife, Charlotte, published a book on the history of poison gas, The Poisonous Cloud (1986).
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