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Finns are prouder of their country's contributions to animal fodder
than they are of achievements in mobile communications technology,
according to a study in the home country of Nokia, the world's largest
mobile phone maker.
Only one in six
Finns was even able to name a Finnish invention or scientific
achievement, the survey conducted by research firm for the Finnish
Society for Scientific Information, said.
Of those, nearly four times as many Finns named preserved
animal fodder, invented by 1945 Nobel Prize winner A.I. Virtanen, a
notable Finnish scientific achievement as selected the runner-up, sugar
substitute xylitol.
Nokia, mobile phone-related inventions and open source computer operating system Linux ranked below genetic research, but above a plate-drying cupboard as notable achievements, the study showed.
Contribution/noun/:
act of donating; donation همكاري وكمك
Fodder/noun/:
food fed to livestock (i.e. hay, straw) علوفه
Preserved/adjective/:
conserved, specially treated in order to protect from spoilage شكارگاه
Invention/noun/:
act of inventing; something invented اختراع، ابتكار
Notable/adjective/:
honorable; remarkable بر جسته، جالب توجه
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