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Italy: Asking for the Moon

Political chaos and the position of the university barons are serious obstacles to scientific research ; the physicists are able to look after their own interests, but Italian biology has not kept pace with the biological revolution.

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Italy: Asking for the Moon. Nature 226, 1016–1018 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2261016a0

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