Check out my latest for @discovernikkei.bsky.social! I wrote about Frank Nobuo Hirosawa, a Japanese American chemist who studied the guayule shrub at Manzanar. He later worked with Cal Tech’s Arie Jan Haagen-Smit on studying LA’s smog, and their research shaped the California Air Resources Board.
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Q: What is guayule?
A: A shrub native to the US Southwest known for producing a type of latex rubber.
During WWII, chemist Frank Nobuo Hirosawa played a key role in a research project on guayule conducted at Manzanar concentration camp. Learn more about his story: https://discovernikkei.org/en/jour…
A: A shrub native to the US Southwest known for producing a type of latex rubber.
During WWII, chemist Frank Nobuo Hirosawa played a key role in a research project on guayule conducted at Manzanar concentration camp. Learn more about his story: https://discovernikkei.org/en/jour…
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