Publisher Alexander Macmillan chose Norman Lockyer as Nature's founding Editor in 1869. It was an inspired choice, but Lockyer's powerful personality courted controversy in the fledgling magazine. Ruth Barton investigates.
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Barton, R. Lockyer's columns of controversy in Nature. Nature (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06260
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