Word: rabinowitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigator is Physicist Eugene Rabinowitch, working for the $615,000 Solar Energy Research Fund established by Godfrey Lowell Cabot to find methods of harnessing the 200 trillion horsepower which the sun pours on the earth. Rabinowitch's researches led him to explore the most imaginative and difficult solution of the mundane power problem: the artificial imitation of the chemical process which goes on inside green plants. Rabinowitch began by looking for organic dyes which, like chlorophyll in plants, might build up compounds with the help of light's energy, which can be released and utilized when the compounds...