The Worst Nobel Prize Ever Awarded
SciShow explores the grim story of the lobotomy, the medical procedure that earned its inventor perhaps the most regrettable Nobel Prize in history. Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Like...
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Science can be .... complicated. And I don’t mean all the math that’s involved. Or the jargon. Or the fact that you can do an experiment a dozen times and not get the same results twice. I’m just saying it can be … dicey. Like, we’ve told you before about Fritz Haber, the chemist who developed the technology that made fertilizer possible, and helped feed millions of people. Except he didn’t use his discovery for that. He used it to invent chemical weapons. In a similar way, most of the innovations that make all of modern space flight possible were developed to make ballistic missiles for Nazis. Now, when you think about it, the science in these cases was totally benign -- neither good nor bad. But sometimes, the things people learn from scient...
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Science can be .... complicated. And I don’t mean all the math that’s involved. Or the jargon. Or the fact that you can do an experiment a dozen times and not get the same results twice. I’m just saying it can be … dicey. Like, we’ve told you before about Fritz Haber, the chemist who developed the technology that made fertilizer possible, and helped feed millions of people. Except he didn’t use his discovery for that. He used it to invent chemical weapons. In a similar way, most of the innovations that make all of modern space flight possible were developed to make ballistic missiles for Nazis. Now, when you think about it, the science in these cases was totally benign -- neither good nor bad. But sometimes, the things people learn from scient...
