Philip Cohen: playing to win
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Philip Cohen: playing to win
What links a champion woman runner, a premier-league soccer team, and a 53 year old male biochemist? Citizens of Dundee, Scotland’s fourth largest city, will know the answer: all three are local heroes. And no wonder biochemist Philip Cohen is a local hero. Over the past nearly 30 years, he has played midwife to the birth of a scientific megapolis on the banks of the River Tay. Today, redundant...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(99)80174-2