lecture series “Initial Spark”
over the world who have been awarded a Nobel Prize or Leibniz Prize, for example, are invited to TU Dortmund University. In addition to the opportunity to listen to a lecture by an outstanding scientist, [...] Arnold as part of the "Jubilee Lectures." The first lecture in the Initialzündung lecture series at TU Dortmund University was given by Professor Frances Arnold, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry from the California [...] and founder of the Nobel Prize, experimented with explosives in mining in the 1860s, including in Dortmund-Dorstfeld at the Dorstfeld colliery. In order to be able to detonate nitroglycerine with greater …