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Michelle Francl suggests that chemists should keep on name-dropping.

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  1. Michelle Francl is Professor of Chemistry on the Clowes Fund for Science and Public Policy and is in the Department of Chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010-2899, USA,

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Francl, M. Naming names. Nature Chem 4, 956–957 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1508

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