Gotta be the medical journal that had the paper “Hey doc before you slice open that guy over there and wiggle your fingers around inside them, wash your fucking hands!” Or the medical journal that published the paper “Doc eats pens every meal until their piss kills the tiny little demons conspirering against the USA. Calls it penicillin.”
In a similar vein, the scientific journal that described the Haber Process, a chemical process that could be used to synthesize ammonia, which could then be used as a fertilizer to provide nitrogen to crops.
The cheap availability of nitrogen fertilizers was probably the biggest contributer to the “Green Revolution” in the mid 20th century, which massively increased agricultural yeilds. And those massive increases in agricultural yeilds are why, worldwide, hunger has dropped to historically low levels in the last century.
Gotta be the medical journal that had the paper “Hey doc before you slice open that guy over there and wiggle your fingers around inside them, wash your fucking hands!” Or the medical journal that published the paper “Doc eats pens every meal until their piss kills the tiny little demons conspirering against the USA. Calls it penicillin.”
In a similar vein, the scientific journal that described the Haber Process, a chemical process that could be used to synthesize ammonia, which could then be used as a fertilizer to provide nitrogen to crops.
The cheap availability of nitrogen fertilizers was probably the biggest contributer to the “Green Revolution” in the mid 20th century, which massively increased agricultural yeilds. And those massive increases in agricultural yeilds are why, worldwide, hunger has dropped to historically low levels in the last century.
It was quite a controversial idea at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex