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Doing your own thing

Nature Nanotechnology volume 13, page 268 (2018)Cite this article

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The spirit of collaboration in a one-room schoolhouse in rural Scotland served as a model for being creative in science, as Fraser Stoddart explains, recounting his journey to Stockholm.

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Stoddart, F. Doing your own thing. Nature Nanotech 13, 268 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-018-0090-6

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