Have you ever heard of Albert Einstein? How about Thomas
Midgley Jnr? Einstein is the physics guy who basically told us how the universe
works. Midgley is the guy who had a major impact on the environment, inventing
leaded petrol and also some of the first CFCs, chlorofluorocarbons, the
chemicals that each year gobble up the ozone layer above us.
Einstein is also the guy who, if he had been applying for
research funding in today’s Ireland would have been turned down. Midgley on the
other hand would likely have been given buckets of cash because his work
translated from research into a product that could be sold.
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