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Watching: The Chemist's Return

6.0•2014-01-01•0 min

Overview

A documentary story about the remarkable life of Jan Czochralski, an eminent Polish chemist and metallurgist, often hailed today as the ‘forefather of global electronics’. His discoveries underpinned virtually everything for which monocrystalline silicon is used today. The problem is that in his homeland almost no one has heard of him. Why?