was sitting on the back of a field ambulance overlooking a mass field of graves when he noticed red poppies growing. “In Flanders fields, the poppies blow. Between the crosses, row on row ...

The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century transformed bare land into fields of blood red poppies, growing around the bodies of the fallen soldiers. In late 1914 ...

was sitting on the back of a field ambulance overlooking a mass field of graves when he noticed red poppies growing. “In Flanders fields, the poppies blow. Between the crosses, row on row ...

It all began with Walther Nernst, a German chemist. He was born in 1864 in Poland, which was part of Prussia at the time. Nernst was a smart boy, mechanically minded – the type who always ...