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Why you should study science: | Cool Kids Rebel

Why you should study science:

October 10, 2007

Go to college for lib arts and you’ll spend your time with up-and-coming low-level NWO bureaucrats. Or, you could do science:

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honors Professor Ertl for his groundbreaking studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces.

He is credited with creating a methodology for demonstrating how different experimental procedures can be used to provide a complete picture of a surface reaction, observing how individual layers of atoms behave on the extremely pure surface of a metal.

VOA News - German Scientist Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize

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