General Electric research. At left,holding a light bulb,is US chemist Willis Rodney Whitney (1868-1958),co-founder of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company in 1900. At centre,Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) who developed radio in the 1890s and early 1900s. In 1909 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. At right,US physical chemist Irving Langmuir (1881-1957),a researcher for General Electric in Schenectady,New York,USA,from 1909. His 1917 theories on surface adsorption and heterogenous catalysis led to the award of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This photograph is from the Bain News Service |