Immerwahr

By Zoë A. Porter


Description: Historically inspired short story about the last moments in the life of scientist Clara Haber
Summary: After getting married aspiring early 20th century scientist Clara Haber (neé Immerwahr) has to give up her scientfic career, due to her husband's traditionalist views. With him, Clara had been working on the creation of artificial fertilizers. With the outbreak of World War I, he uses their research to create new explosives for the war effort, much to Clara's horror. On the day Fritz presents his newest invention -poisonous gas- she decides to take her own life.
Rating: T (mentions of WMDs, suicide)
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
The header image is in the public domain.

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