Template:Did you know nominations/Richard Grenfell Thomas

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Richard Grenfell Thomas

  • ... that Isabel Bear and Richard Grenfell Thomas published the first scientific description of the smell of rain, for which Thomas coined the term "petrichor"? Source: "Nature of Argillaceous Odour might be a mouthful, but this was the name of the paper published in the Nature journal of March 7, 1964, by CSIRO scientists Isabel (Joy) Bear and Richard Thomas, that first described petrichor." [1], "Thomas gave the name 'petrichor' to this odour" [2])

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