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...Gustaf Dalén, a Nobel prize-winning physicist who revolutionized lighthouse technology, turned his attention to the science of cooking while convalescing at home after being blinded during an experiment with pressurized gases. Traditional kitchen ranges then were temperamental, depending on the manipulation of hot gases through flues. Dalén came up instead with a well-insulated, cast-iron stove that stored warmth efficiently and demanded only a small heat source. The radiant heat also proved successful in cooking food without drying it out, and he named the stove after his company, Svenska Aktiebolaget Gas Accumulator...
...McDonald's for using cow fat in French fries. Shiva, 49, calls herself an eco-feminist. At one moment she scolds multinational corporations in street protests, and the next she advises their CEOs on how to be good global citizens. Born in a Himalayan village and trained as a physicist, Shiva has taken up issues like logging and pesticide use through her New Delhi-based Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology...
...those people meditating on their doorstep in silent protest against a magazine article that followers of Falun Gong considered slanderous. When President Jiang Zemin received his first report on the group that day, he bellowed, "Why did no one tell me about this?" according to the report's author, physicist He Zuoxiu...
...University presented 11 honorary degrees, including doctor of letter degrees to poet John Ashbery, a doctorate in humane letters to Indian womens’ labor organizer Ela R. Bhatt and anti-violence activist Geoffrey Canada, a doctorate in science to chemist Isabella L. Karle and physicist Charles H. Townes...
...EDWIN HUBBLE when: 1927 what he did: Discovered that faraway galaxies all seem to be flying away from Earth, which suggested that the universe was in fact expanding. In doing so, Hubble gave Einstein scientific license to abandon the cosmological constant, whose creation the brilliant physicist dubbed the greatest blunder of his career. In retrospect, it was an inspired guess that could have won him another Nobel Prize...