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Basic research is like shooting an arrow into the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Homer Burton Adkins

Homer Burton Adkins
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Born: January 16, 1892
Died: August 10, 1949 (aged 57)
Bio: Homer Burton Adkins was an American chemist who studied the hydrogenation of organic compounds. Adkins was regarded as top in his field and a world authority on the hydrogenation of organic compounds.

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