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It's hard to top antibiotics in terms of useful inventions.
by hardtke 10y ago
It's hard to top antibiotics in terms of useful inventions.
- madiathomas 10y agoYes they are very useful. I was only counting computer related contributions since Turin award only recognise people who contributed to computing community.
- LeonB 10y agodiscovery, not invention. (But I guess developing them into a useful product is itself an invention. Maybe there's no bright line between discovery and invention.)
- hutzlibu 10y agoI suppose our world could function without antibiotics, but not without the transistor ...
- nimchimpsky 10y ago"the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. This invention is of importance for the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives. The food production for half the world's current population depends on this method for producing nitrogen fertilizers." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber