1874: Carl Bosch, a chemist whose work would transform agriculture and industry — and eventually enable the Green Revolution — is born.
Bosch’s contribution to humanity was the development of the Haber-Bosch process, a technique for creating ammonia in large quantities.
Ammonia is an essential component of agricultural fertilizers, because it’s rich in nitrogen — which makes [...]
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August 27, 1874: He’s Ammoniac, Ammoniac at the Fore
August 27th, 2010 |
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Feb, 11, 1939: Lise Meitner, ‘Our Madame Curie’
February 11th, 2010 |
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1939: Austrian-born physicist Lise Meitner publishes her discovery that atomic nuclei split during some uranium reactions. Her research will be overlooked by the Nobel committee when it awards a prize for the work.
Meitner is a prominent example of a woman whose gender put her in the back seat when the top prize was given. [...]