A Catalyst for Change
7 min readFeb 9, 2021
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Elizabeth Fulhame discovers catalysis and plants the seeds of photography
Everyone knows Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius discovered chemical catalysis in 1835, right? He described it as “the property of exerting on other bodies an action which is very different from chemical affinity. By means of this action, they produce decomposition in bodies, and form new compounds…