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Science 27 September 1996:
Vol. 273. no. 5283, pp. 1796 - 0
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5283.1796
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Carol Potera

For years biofilms were considered chiefly a practical problem, the domain of engineers worried about corrosion. Then in the 1980s, one charismatic engineer, the late William Characklis of Montana State University in Bozeman, learned microbiological techniques and bridged the gap between biology and engineering. Characklis's interdisciplinary legacy continues at the biofilm center he founded at Montana State.




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