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Many thanks for the sending me the book Biology of the Striped Skunk...Frankly, I doubt whether I shall read it or not, unless I happen to have some intimate contact with a skunk which may induce me to learn more about him.

Roger Adams

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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.
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Born: January 2, 1889
Died: July 6, 1971 (aged 82)
Bio: Roger Adams was an American organic chemist. He is best known for the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and his work did much to determine the composition of naturally occurring substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids.
Known for:
  1. The Biochemistry of the Nucleic Acids
  2. Organic Syntheses -
  3. Artist of Life: Festival of Youth

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