Ahead of his 82nd birthday, Helmut Schwarz, recent recipient of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry at Technische Universität Berlin, looks back on his career in science.
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Helmut Schwarz was interviewed by Stephanie Greed
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Schwarz, H., Greed, S. A life of adventures into the foundations of chemistry. Nat Rev Chem 9, 499–500 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41570-025-00745-z
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