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Nature 446, xv (26 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/7139xvc; Published online 25 April 2007
KEY Collaboration
What's the best that can happen when a scientist sits in on a course from another discipline? For Robert MacPherson, a mathematician based at Princeton in New Jersey, and materials scientist David Srolovitz, it led to a collaboration that hit a theoretical jackpot and has broad practical applications.
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