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To: elmatador who wrote (45148)	1/11/2009 12:52:49 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 218055

This Norwegian scientist was nominated for the Nobel prize 7 times, but it was undermined by his business partner (Sam Eyde, who also founded Norsk Hydro). In those days people feared the world could starve from lack of fertilizer, so Birkeland invented the plasma arc nitrogen fixation process. Kristian Birkeland en.wikipedia.org The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis (Hardcover) amazon.com snowshoe@thingsnotlearnedinschool