Special Guest Blogger: Fritz Haber

It is said that the 1918 Nobel Prize for chemistry was probably the most important Nobel Prize ever awarded, directly responsible for solving one of the biggest problems humanity has ever faced and saving the lives of 4 billion people although at the time many of my peers refused to attend the ceremony and two other Nobel Prize winners rejected their awards in protest at me.
My story begins with bird islands off the coast of Peru where millions of sea birds gather to mate and poop. A lot.
Bird poop was big business because it contains lots of Nitrogen and it's essential for all life on Earth as we get our nitrogen by literally getting people to eat plants covered in shit and plants get their nitrogen from the soil.
The problem is if you farm the same soil year after year you harvest the nitrogen out of it, and eventually there isn't enough of it for healthy plants to grow so farmers need it to add nitrogen back into the soil, which is where bird poop comes in.
South America's rich deposits of bird poop did not go unnoticed by the rest of the world, there was wars over it but the bird poo was running out and Peru banned it's exports so the world needed another  way to get its nitrogen fix.
Here's the thing, nitrogen isn't rare, 78% of the air is nitrogen, but it's in a form that plants and animals can't use and many scientists were trying to solve the problem of making it usable and failing miserably then i came along and said how about we use Osmium, the stuff used in lightbulb filaments, to make ammonia nitrate which is even better than nitrogen and i built the equipment, placed a sheet of Osmium in the pressure chamber and created ammonia nitrate which Germany's biggest chemical company, BASF, commercialised and were producing five tons of ammonia per day.
With the fertilizer from my process, farmers were able to grow four times as much food, and as a result the population of the Earth quadrupled and made me a very wealthy man so why was i shunned by colleagues when i won the Nobel Prize including my closest friend Albert Einstein?
Well, it all comes down to what happened in World War I.
When the war broke out, i volunteered for military duty and only a few months into the war, the German army was already running out of explosives and Ammonium Nitrate, besides being an excellent fertilizer, is also an explosive and i converted the factories using my process to make ammonia for fertilizer to create nitrate for explosives instead.
The French were using tear gas as a chemical weapon but i went one better and tried to create a better chemical weapon than the Brits and French were already using and came up with chlorine gas which the first time it was used killed over 1,000 Allied soldiers.
The Brits soon began using my own invention against the German trenches and the Americans used mustard gas and my wife was horrified that her husband was the instigator of such a terrible weapon and shot herself which inspired me to spend the rest of the war researching even more deadly chemical weapons such as Zyklon B.
When Germany surrendered, i lost all the money i made to hyperinflation and died of heart failure the following year but my legacy continued into the next war as my Zyklon B was used against the Jews to perpetrate the Holocaust.
It would be easy to paint me as a hero for inventing the process used to feed billions or a villain as my invention enabled the death of millions but other nations scientists were also developing chemical weapons, i was just better than them at it and the much admired pacifist Albert Einstein began the ball rolling on Nuclear weapons which the Americans used to kill 200,000 in the blink of an eye so think again Albert on exactly who is the bad guy here?