Far too little is available in English on the life of a man whose achievements now help feed half of all people on Earth. However, fertilizers were the last thing on Haber's mind when he set out to do his most famous and important work. Haber's career and eventual personal tragedy are full of ironies - a patriotic German forced out by Hitler, a developer of weapons whose discoveries were to prolong a war that destroyed his country, but later were to fuel the Green Revolution, a man of great talent, generosity, and pettiness, a lover of women whose marriages ended in suicide and divorce. Goran lets the story tell itself without imposing his own judgments, and indeed the only major criticism I would make of this book is the tendency to pile together uncritically facts and anecdotes, while the central character remains elusive. Goran's work would appear to have served as a source for Rhodes (Making of the Atomic Bomb), unless both Rhodes and Goran used the same source. Goran's work clearly deserves to be better known, and the fact that this 30-year-old volume has not been supereded in the Amazon catalog poses a clear challenge to historians and biographers.