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Visible viruses and geodesic domes

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Martin Kemp's1 article “Visible viruses” incorrectly credits Brenner and Horne with introducing negative staining and Wildy and Watson with recognizing the parallels between virus structure and Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes. His discussion of capsid design omits key points.

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