Chemistry: A Key to Human Progress

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Presenter: Bassam Shakhashiri

Published: February 2013

Age: 14-19 and upwards

Views: 2110 views

Tags: waste environment resource sustainability

Type: Lectures

Source/institution: Royal Society of Chemistry


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Basic research in science has greatly increased our understanding of nature, expanded frontiers of inquiry, shown us how little we know, triggered creative waves of invention and innovation, and prompted technological breakthroughs that were inconceivable just a few short decades ago.  Professor, Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, President of the American Chemical Society, explains how the biggest challenge for chemistry today is to help sustain Earth and its people in the face of population growth, finite resources, malnutrition, spreading disease, deadly violence, war, climate change, and the denial of basic human rights, especially the right to benefit from scientific and technological progress.

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