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Follow your nose

Nature volume 428, pages 221–222 (2004)Cite this article

Alice Shih-hou Huang draws on her own experience to highlight the many careers and opportunities open to scientists in the West and in China.

When I visited Beijing a few years ago, I asked the young people I was talking to to name a twentieth-century hero. They did not name a politician, movie star or a millionaire; they named the scientist Albert Einstein.

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