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Science 8 June 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5523, p. 1843
DOI: 10.1126/science.1062438
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Books

CHEMISTRY:
Nota Bene: Some Things Never Change

A review by Julia Uppenbrink

Oxygen
Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann
Wiley-VCH, New York, 2001. 128 pp. Paper, $14.95, £9.99. ISBN 3-527-30413-4.

Oxygen
Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann
Lyceum Theatre, San Diego, CA, 2 to 7 April 2001. See www.djerassi.com/oxygen/oxygen2.html for future performances.

Who discovered oxygen: Scheele, Priestly, or Lavoisier? Hoping to combine entertainment and education, two renowned chemists turned playwrights consider the question by creating a 1777 meeting of the protagonists and a committee to award "retro-Nobels."

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