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Profiling a Scientist: Annelise Barron

NPR
Published February 25, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Most American scientists are as much administrators, teachers and thinkers as they are experimenters. NPR's Joe Palca has a profile of a young chemical engineer at Northwestern University who hopes to discover new drugs, and how she really goes about it.

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