In the melting pot of modern science, chemistry's cutting edge is being rebranded as biology or nanotechnology. David Adam wonders if false modesty is leaving chemists to pick up the crumbs from their own periodic table.
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Adam, D. What's in a name?. Nature 411, 408–409 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35078228
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