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content: Etching of Professor Haber.
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content: Fritz Haber (1868-1934) was a German-Jewish chemist who received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for having developed a process for synthesizing ammonia, a substance widely used for fertilizers and explosives. He was also known for having promoted the use of poison gas during World War I.
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content: Max Mayer (d. 1961) was a German-Jewish chemist who, besides being Haber's friend and financial adviser, taught at Karlsruhe University, served as president of the Chemishe Verein in Aussig, Czechoslovakia, and fled to the United States in the late 1930s. Mayer apparently gave this etched portrait of Haber to his son, Albert H. Manning and he in turn, donated it to the Smithsonian.
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content: The etcher has signed this image: "W. Lentz 1911." Haber has signed it: "To my friend Max Mayer Dr. F. Haber."
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content: Ref. Dietrich Stolzenberg, <i>Fritz Haber: Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew</i> (Philadelphia, 2004.)
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content: "Dr. Max Mayer Dies; Consulting Chemist," <i>New York Times</i> (Dec.17, 1961), p. 82.
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: PH.321733
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content: 321733
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content: 243809
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content: etching