#aldrin

• Aldrin — A surname of Germanic or Anglo-Saxon origin, famous due to the American astronaut Buzz Aldrin (b. 1930), the second man to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. In the chemical industry and ecotoxicology, the lowercase term (aldrin) designates a highly toxic organochlorine insecticide, banned globally under the Stockholm Convention due to its heavy structural persistence in the environment.