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- From: quest@iowegia.uucp (Steve J. Quest)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: The H-Bomb secret is out
- Message-ID: <isgksB4w165w@iowegia.uucp>
- Date: 13 Oct 92 04:53:53 GMT
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- jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
-
- > the US by several different measures. And since when was Mendeleev (or
- > Curie or Einstein or Fermi or Nobel or Rutherford or Hahn or Meitner) an
- > AMERICAN name? Only Bk, Cf, Lr and Am fit that description.
- >
-
- Jim,
-
- True, Curie, Einstein, Fermi, and Nobel were not native to
- the United states, they were not born here- but they CAME here to
- do their research and to become great. Just remember as you
- disagree with the things I say- medical professionals of the time
- laughed at Flemming as he was developing Penicillin. They openly
- called him "stupid" and other demeaning remarks. They said things
- like " Penicillin is such a weak antiseptic it is not even worth
- persuing". They put their faith in Mercuric compounds like
- Mercurichrome as the salvation for mankinds war against infection
- and disease. As you know, Flemming was right- and so am I.....sq
-
- (today we say "how could anyone be so stupid to use Mercury based
- chemicals as anti-infectives in the human body! Mercury is
- poisonous! And yet so it was.....)
-