Who and How was Reverse Osmosis invented?

Reverse Osmosis was actually discovered after the help of many researchers and scientists but the first person to ever even spark off the idea was the people in the University Of California at Los Angeles. Following that was the University of Florida who also helped them to make the idea become reality. 

• However, these researchers were only planning to investigate on the idea of desalination through the semi-permeable membranes.
• Although they did succeed, the flux was far too little to be regarded as a way of filtration. This means that their way of Reverse Osmosis was of a very small scale.
• Therefore, their idea of Reverse Osmosis was not accepted.
• However, through the years of advancement of technology, the theory of Reverse Osmosis was slowly developed and now, more than 10 thousand desalination plants are around, worldwide.

However, all these were not possible without the discovery of Jane Antoine Nollet. 

• He had discovered the theory of Osmosis.
• As Osmosis included semi-permeable membranes, this actually helped the researchers in the University Of California at Los Angeles to be able to think of Reverse Osmosis.
• As Osmosis actually was a natural process, it was only to be observed as a phenomenon.
• Thus, the researchers actually wanted to research on desalination using semi-permeable membranes which later on became Reverse Osmosis.

Actually, the researchers in the University of Florida and the University Of California at Los Angeles did not really discover Reverse Osmosis but merely the theory of Reverse Osmosis.

• The practical method of Reverse Osmosis was actually invented by researchers in the modern world, equipped with modern technology(or at least better) and also funded by the Office of Saline Water in America.
• They improved the theory of Reverse Osmosis from the researchers in the two Universities.