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A diverse view of science to catalyse change

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Valuing diversity leads to scientific excellence, the progress of science and, most importantly, it is simply the right thing to do. We must value diversity not only in words, but also in actions.

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  1. Laboratory for Chemical Technology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    César A. Urbina-Blanco

  2. Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States

    Safia Z. Jilani

  3. Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

    Isaiah R. Speight & Renã A. S. Robinson

  4. Department of Chemistry, King’s College London, London, UK

    Michael J. Bojdys

  5. Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Michael J. Bojdys

  6. Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

    Tomislav Friščić

  7. Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    J. Fraser Stoddart

  8. Institute for Molecular Design and Synthesis, Tianjin University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

    J. Fraser Stoddart

  9. School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    J. Fraser Stoddart

  10. Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA

    Toby L. Nelson

  11. Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    James Mack

  12. Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA

    Emanuel A. Waddell

  13. Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    Jodie L. Lutkenhaus

  14. Department of Chemistry, The University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA

    Murrell Godfrey

  15. Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford, UK

    Martine I. Abboud

  16. Department of Chemistry, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Stephen O. Aderinto

  17. Department of Chemistry, Covenant University, CST, Canaanland, Ogun State, Nigeria

    Damilola Aderohunmu

  18. School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

    Lučka Bibič

  19. Department of Chemistry, CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal

    João Borges

  20. Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

    Vy M. Dong

  21. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

    Lori Ferrins

  22. Department of Chemistry, National University of, Singapore, Singapore

    Fun Man Fung

  23. Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM), Leipzig, Germany

    Torsten John

  24. School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

    Felicia P. L. Lim

  25. School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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  28. Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UK

    Maria-Magdalena Titirici

  29. Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Gabriela D. Tormet-González

  30. Institute of Materials Chemistry, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Miriam M. Unterlass

  31. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, Durham, NC, USA

    Austin Wadle

  32. Institute of Molecular Functional Materials and Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

    Vivian W.-W. Yam

  33. State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, International Joint Research Laboratory of Nano-Micro Architecture Chemistry (NMAC), College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

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Urbina-Blanco, C.A., Jilani, S.Z., Speight, I.R. et al. A diverse view of science to catalyse change. Nat. Chem. 12, 773–776 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-0529-x

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