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Celebration of inorganic lives: interview with Henry Taube

✍ Scribed by Peter C. Ford

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 79 KB
Volume: 249
Category: Article
ISSN: 0010-8545
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2004.09.010

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✦ Synopsis

When I first floated the idea several years ago of preparing the present interview with Henry Taube, I remembered our conversations when I was a postdoctoral fellow in the late 1960s. In those he reminisced fondly about his student days at the University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1930s

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