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“A nadir of prestige”?

Ulf Lagerkvist: The periodic table and a missed Nobel Prize. Singapore: World Scientific, 2012, 136pp, £18.00 PB

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Robinson, A.E. “A nadir of prestige”?. Metascience 23, 195–198 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-013-9792-4

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