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Albert Eschenmoser (1925–2023) Autobiography Preface
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[...] Professionally, I have had the extraordinarily
good fortune to spend my entire career as a
university teacher and to dedicate myself to
scientific research. In retrospect, I believe that fate could not have granted me a better profession than that of a natural scientist, and within the natural sciences, none more fitting than that of a researcher in the field of chemistry, and no other branch of chemistry would have suited me better than the one to which I was to devote my professional life: synthetic organic chemistry. [...]
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Title: Albert Eschenmoser (1925–2023) Autobiography Preface
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] Professionally, I have had the extraordinarily
good fortune to spend my entire career as a
university teacher and to dedicate myself to
scientific research.
In retrospect, I believe that fate could not have granted me a better profession than that of a natural scientist, and within the natural sciences, none more fitting than that of a researcher in the field of chemistry, and no other branch of chemistry would have suited me better than the one to which I was to devote my professional life: synthetic organic chemistry.
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Note: This is a quoted excerpt from the beginning of the chapter.
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