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A quantum of history

Nature Chemistry volume 3, pages 902–903 (2011)Cite this article

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Michelle Francl wonders how much time chemists should spend learning history.

Seen from afar, it could have been the opening scene for a movie starring Julia Roberts. It's a cool crisp autumn day on a classic college campus, the trees blazing red and orange. A young faculty member is walking up the steps to a Gothic stone building chatting, companionably perhaps, with her senior colleague. Cut to the close up. “What are you teaching them in your course?” the more experienced academic grumbles. “They don't know anything about chemistry!”

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  1. Michelle Francl is in the Department of Chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010-2899, USA,

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