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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes absorbed by plants and ends up in human tissues. Also, some insects have developed immunity to it. With Pa van's discovery, researchers in the U.S., Britain, Italy and Germany went to work. Last week a three-man team headed by Bonn University Chemistry Professor Friedhelm Korte, who also runs a Shell oil company laboratory in suburban Bonn, announced it had at last synthesized Iridomyrmecin. Cautioned a Shell spokesman: "We cannot say how much the new stuff will cost and when it will be marketed, because we do not know ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Insecticide? | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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