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Nature 449, 139 (13 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449139d; Published online 12 September 2007
The Vietnam War added a motive to go on studying
F. Christian Thompson1
- Systematic Entomology Laboratory, ARS, USDA, Smithsonian Institution MRC-0169, Washington DC 20013-7012, USA
Tony Dahlen's obituary (Nature 448, 268; 2007) comments that Dahlen "could have graduated early in 1968, but decided to satisfy his broad interests by spending a further year sampling courses in other areas".Another reason may have been to avoid being drafted into the armed forces and the Vietnam War.
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