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Nature 452, 934 (24 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452934d; Published online 23 April 2008
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Truth about a plant with many names
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In the portrayal in Books & Arts of the University History Museum in Pavia, northern Italy (Nature 451, 526, 2008), the naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli — one of Pavia's many famous professors — is linked with the drug scopolamine. But although the two are connected, the compound was in fact named after the plant from which it is derived, Scopolia carniolica.
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