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Strangers to fiction

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Michelle Francl wonders if more chemists should be reading science fiction on the job.

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

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