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land became healthy thanks to
Alfred L. Bacharach, a chemist who
introduced the fortification of British
baby formula with Vitamin D. The
innovation brought about almost the
complete eradication of rickets
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of immunology and is considered
the founder of chemotherapy.

12. Leo Arons (1860-1919) was
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13. Emil Berlinger (1851-1929)
of Germany designed the first mod-
ern musical records by using a flat
disk. Berlinger also invented the
microphone and did a great deal
of research on helicopters.

14. Anton Prokezz and Herman
Toch of Vienna were the first to dis-
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15. Our chances of dying from an
infection are much less because of
the 1945 discovery of streptomycin

by Selman A. Waksman, a soil
biologist at Rutgers University. This
antibiotic, produced using mold cul-
tures, is used in the treatment of
tuberculosis.

16. One of the early researchers
of DNA was Rosaline Franklin, who
died in 1957 when she was
37 years old.

17. Albert Ladenburg (1842-
1911) of Germany discovered the
molecular weight of ozone, as well
as the atomic weight of iodine.

18. The author of one of the earli-c /
est books about atomic energy, The
Atom and Its'Energy, was Edward
N.D. Andrade (1887-1971) of Lon-
don. Andrade also is the man
behind Andrade's Laws, which
explain the flow of metals.

19. Samuel Tolansky (1907-
1973), a member of the British
Royal Society, was one of a hand-
ful of physicists invited to study
rocks and moon dust from the Apol-
lo flight.

20. Arthur Kantrowitz of New
York City was one of the key figures
behind the development of the inter-
continental ballistic warhead.

21. Virtually all of the first large air-
planes and bombers of the Boeing
Company were designed by Bene-
dict Cohn, born in 1913 in Roma- <
nia. Among the aircraft he devel-
oped were the B-29 and the B-47.

22. Ifs thanks to Shmuel Duvde-
vani, who was born in Russia in
1903 and immigrated to Israel, that
we are able to scientifically gauge
what appear to be nothing more
than droplets of water. Duvdevani
established our system for measur-
ing dew.

23. The Margules Equation, which
measures wind velociy and its