Chemist (1868–1934) who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. He has also been deemed the 'father of chemical warfare' for his years of pioneering work developing and weaponizing chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I. ALS in German, signed “F. Haber,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8.75 x 11.25, personal letterhead, December 12, 1908. Handwritten letter to the family of the lawyer Ludwig van Aken in Wiesbaden, in part (translated): “My warmest congratulations on your birthday and my warmest thanks for the memory of you, your husband and my aunt Amalia on my birthday. I am now 40 years old and have white hair and I am waiting for the intelligence that the Swabians develop at this age. I wish you from the bottom of my heart that you keep your happy heart and your satisfaction in life for a long time and that you have happy days in Sarreguemines…We also often spent time in Karlsruhe. We gratefully ate your husband's delicious rabbit and our stomachs felt what our mouths were too weak to say thanks to. We only encountered one very big misfortune. A letter came with your lamp, which was extremely attractive. He was on the birthday table in the morning and then he was gone! My wife is looking and I am looking and Männdel [the son Hermann] is looking, but no one saw him anymore and it seems that Männdel's hedgehog took him away. I am very sad that I have only seen the outside and am counting on a renewed repetition of the content that has been withheld from all of us…Männdel has chosen a bronze for you, which my wife and I are asking for as a sign of our great gratitude for what we have received.” In fine condition.
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