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Nature volume 408, pages 282–283 (2000)Cite this article

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Garrett, a 52-year-old former metallurgist, was nearing the end of his term as head of South Africa's main research agency, the CSIR. He has a strong track record in attracting external funds for the South African agency, where they make up 60% of the budget.

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Clarification On page 824 in the issue of 19 October 2000, a photograph of Max Planck flanked by two uniformed Nazis appears with the caption: “Close ties: Max Planck (centre) at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research in 1935.” This wording implies that Planck might have been a Nazi sympathizer. This was not the case — in fact Planck resigned his post as president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in 1937 in protest at the Nazis' treatment of Jewish scientists.

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