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So he decides to take a stand.

And says, this is intolerable.

I'm going to resign.

He says that he's always been hiring people based on how smart they are and not who their grandparents were.

So he sends a letter to the Ministry of Education resigning, and he leaves Germany.

Telling a friend, he felt like he'd lost his homeland.

And then he starts this period of roaming.

He eventually goes to England.

But in a famous incident, one of England's leading scientists refuses to shake his hand.

And he is basically homeless at this point.

You know, he's a man adrift.

Meanwhile... His health is failing.

In 1934, he takes a trip to Switzerland to a sanatorium.

But before he can get there... His heart fails and he dies.

Now there's a footnote to this that is very strange.

I got a little... My dorsal hair stood up when I read the end of this.

Right.

So during World War I, Haber's institute had developed a formulation of insect-killing gas called Zyklon.

Zyklon A. Which was originally just a pesticide.

Once again, another nitrogen compound.