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Fritz Haber (1868-1934) was a German chemist, known as "the father of chemical warfare" due to his work in developing and deploying chlorine and other poisonous gases for use in World War I. Along with Carl Bosch, he developed the Haber process, which is the catalytic formation of ammonia from hydrogen and atmospheric nitrogen under conditions of relatively low temperature and high pressure. This is considered an important milestone in industrial chemistry, and he received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work. As part of his work in chemical warfare, he developed gas masks with absorbent filters, and formulated a mathematical relationship between gas concentration and necessary exposure time to induce death, known as Haber's rule. He is also associated with the development of the cyanide formulation, Zyklon B.