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History of science: Chemists behaving badly

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Theodore Gray revels in the ego-ridden story of the elements that never were.

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  1. Theodore Gray is the co-founder of Wolfram Research, founder of Touchpress, and proprietor of periodictable.com. His latest book is Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything, also available in an interactive iPad edition.,

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