One of the best things is that, though Fritz Haber designed the process intending to use it to create chemical weapons to harm people, the Haber process is now indispensable to producing fertilizer, and without it the world would not be able to support anywhere near the current world population
I like taking things designed for awful purposes and repurposing them for good
the only real downside is that Haber's name is stuck to it. and Haber was not what you would call a good person
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