Dark side of the research by Nobel laureates

ByMichael

The Nobel Prize is sent to people who "made the greatest contribution for mankind", but research that was admired at that time as "wonderful" can also be thought of as "hideous" decades later . About the research which can also be called "the dark side" of the Nobel Prize, the evaluation now being the opposite of that at that timeNDTV.comIt is summarized.

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The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize aims at global activities for prohibiting chemical weapons and preventing diffusionChemical weapons banWas awarded, but ironically one of the reasons leading to the creation of chemical weapons banning institutions was in a research that won the Nobel Prize.

Developed fertilizer using ammonia synthesis methodFritz-HarborWas awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918. It was a harbor that made innovative research that greatly contributed to the development of agriculture, but on the other hand, he was keen to develop toxic gases used in the First World War. The toxic gas developed by Harbor is a inhumane thing that makes people dying if it is high concentration, and makes a person suffer from difficulty in breathing at low concentrations for a long time. In fact, the German Army succeeded in putting the French army in a local destruction state using toxic gases.

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The harbor at the time was rumored to have been on the list of war criminals as having developed toxic gas, and the ruling of the death penalty would come downThings that it was thought. With regard to Harbor's awards announced in that situation, criticisms from each country burst out, and the view that it is "German diploma" was also done. However, in the end Harbor did not become the capital punishment and continued to improve its results in research after winning the Nobel Prize.

Chemists who developed toxic gases as well as harborsViktor GrignardAlso won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Grignard's awards are in 1912 before the great war, so the story is a bit different. Although it is certain that Harbor developed revolutionary fertilizer in agriculture, on the other hand it is difficult to say that Harbor was suitable for the Nobel Prize, given the impact of toxic gases on the world.

However, due to the controversy surrounding Harbor's awards, the judges of the Nobel Prize certainly cautiously selected the winners after the war. In 1945, when I was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry three months after the atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I found nuclear fissionOtto Hahnwas.

At first glance Hearn lends the power to drop the atomic bomb and it seems to be in the same position as the harbor that was keen on toxic gas development, but German chemists such as Hearn developed only the principle of nuclear separation, The point that I objected to nuclear weapons development was very different from the harbor. In fact, Hearn et al chemists were detained in the UK as Allied prisoners of war in World War II, and after hearing the ambush after the atomic bombing, "We appreciate that we did not succeed in developing nuclear weapons Let's say "I will do it."

In the official document of the Nobel Prize, "As of 1940Swedish AcademyI wanted to give an award to Haan. "In fact, it was said in 1944 that" Hearn is a hidden Nobel laureate "in the same profession. For political reasons the award was given in 1945 when the war ended, but in fact Harn was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize.


In addition, a controversial thing at the Nobel Prize in Physiology / Medicine was Portuguese doctor who devised Lobotomy,Egas Monision. Lobotomy is a treatment method to fundamentally treat mental disorders by resecting the frontal lobe, thought to be epochal at the time, but due to the side effect of severe deprivation of the human nature of the patient, It is known as a high surgery. In addition, Monys was shot by his patient at the age of 65 to damage the spinal cord, and to the disabled. In the United States, the parties and families who have become disused by robotomy surgery still have a campaign to cancel Mons' Nobel PrizeIt is doneOn the website of the Nobel Foundation, it is noted that Mons' achievement is "controversial".

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In addition,Paul Hermann MullerButDDT(Pesticide)Although he developed the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 1948 and awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, there is also a history that DDT later became regulated globally as having an adverse effect on the environment and human beings. In 1970Norman · BorogueHas won the Nobel Peace Prize as developing a new agricultural technology centering on high-yield varieties such as wheat and instructing the significant increase in production of cereals, but winning the Nobel Prize and acclaimed achievement will be covered in the future The possibility is always left.