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  • From the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

  • My experience goes back to the time when chemistry and biochemistry were entirely separate disciplines

  • The German synthetic organic chemists and their disciples in the United States were so proud of their achievements, where they relied on prodigious memories and hard work in the laboratory that they ignored new developments

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From the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 My experience goes back to the time when chemistry and biochemistry were entirely separate disciplines. (Edward Purcell, the inventor of NMR, visited the chemistry laboratories at Harvard after we had bought a 100-megacycle machine from Varian and remarked that, for the first time, he knew what a chemist was.

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