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With this Ruby Laser, George Porter Sped up Photochemistry

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George Porter’s flash of insight at a lighting factory On a trip to collect a mercury arc lamp for the searchlight, Porter saw flash lamps being made at a Siemens factory. In a series of provocative newspaper articles and a 1959 lecture at Cambridge entitled “ The Two Cultures ,” the novelist and physical chemist C.P. www.youtube.com.

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