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Thomas Hager: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Thomas Hager, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• The scientist who saved his daughter's life, then was forced to refuse his Nobel

  In 1935 Gerhard Domagk showed the red dye Prontosil cured deadly streptococcal infections, launching the sulfa-drug era that saved millions of lives before penicillin was mass-prod…

  — Thomas Hager, The Demon Under the Microscope

• He's the only person to win two Nobel Prizes entirely on his own

  Linus Pauling won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the nature of the chemical bond, then won the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize for campaigning against nuclear weapons tes…

  — Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager, Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics

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