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Nature 394, 511 (6 August 1998) | doi:10.1038/28911
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Lord Sainsbury, former chairman and chief executive of the large chain of supermarkets that bears his family's name, has been named as Britain's new science minister following a cabinet reshuffle last week.Tony Blair, the prime minister, also announced that Sir Robert May, the government's chief scientist, will be given an office in the Cabinet Office, a move frequently demanded by critics since the Office of Science and Technology was moved to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in 1995 (see Nature 376, 103; 1995).
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