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 | | Although an application for this method was found only in the 1950s, today's electronics would be impossible without it, which would mean there would be none of the equipment we have all come to rely on in our daily lives which requires silicon chips-such as televisions, computers, telephones, robots, microwave ovens and quartz watches. |
 | | Czochralski discovered great and small things-even today, the liquid used for "hot" permanent waves at the hairdresser's is based on his recipe. |
 | | In 1664, Jan Heweliusz was inducted the Royal Society in London, the most important scientific institution in Europe at the time, as a recognition of his accomplishments, which had made him famous throughout Europe. |
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