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Nature 412, 757 (23 August 2001) | doi:10.1038/35090710

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Staff suggest cure for Smithsonian woes

Josette Chen

Scientists at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington have come up their own plan for reorganizing research operations at the Smithsonian Institution, of which the museum is part.The 13-page plan would divide science at the Smithsonian into three institutes of roughly equal size, dealing with astrophysics, natural sciences and environmental sciences.