Monday, February 4, 2013

Did you know?

The modern chemical and dye industries rest on German-Jewish achievements. Jewish chemists were the first to synthesize indigo, the first to discover phthalein dyes, and the first to produce ammonia synthetically (the Haber process named after Fritz Haber). A Jew founded the German potash industry. Jewish chemists devised methods for estimating vapor density, studied coefficients of expansion for gases, worked out theories of valencies, developed molecular theories, and classified organic compounds.
Nobel prize winner Richard Willstatter determined the composition of chlorophyll and the role of enzymes in the chemical process of life.
In physics, the Jewish contributions are so numerous that this list must be even more cursory than the others. Jewish physicists discovered the Hertzian wave, investigated photoelectric phenomena, were codiscoverers of the gamma rays. They isolated isotopes, worked in electron kinetics, and pried into the secret of the atom.
They were the founders of the entire school of relativity, which led to the splitting of the atom. This trail began, of course, with Albert Einstein, then led to Lise Meitner, codiscoverer of protactinium, element 91, and her nuclear fission theory. 
The next stop led to Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard who developed the chain reaction system, and then to Niels Bohr, who investigated the structure of atoms and the radiations emanating from them.

All--Einstein, Meitner, Fermi, Szilard, Bohr--were driven out of Europe by Hitler.

Max I. Dimont - Jews, God and History

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