How Chemistry Shaped the First World War. Reveals the true extent of how the Great War was a Chemists War from bullets to bombs, gas to first aid[...]
Within months of the start of the First World War, Germany began to run out of the raw materials it needed to make explosives. As Germany faced imminent defeat, chemists such as Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch came to the rescue with Nobel Prize winning discoveries that overcame the shortages and enabled[...]