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You Can't Keep A Good Chemist Down

Nigel Spivey FORCE OF NATURE: THE LIFE OF LINUS PAULING by Tom Hager Simon & Schuster, £25, pp. 608 L inus Pauling won his first Nobel prize, for Chemistry, in 1954 — the same......

Who Are We?

Blair Worden THE STORY OF BRITAIN by Roy Strong Hutchinson, £30, pp. 700 N ever has our national history been harder to write. The specialisation of academic history by burying......