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NaturalFeature
Rubbery plateau / /
OperatingSystem
Macintosh / /
Organization
Harvard University / /
Person
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes / John W. Hyatt / Wallace Hume Carothers / Thomas Hancock / Wallace Carothers / Charles Macintosh / Charles Goodyear / Julian Hill / Isaiah / Steven Chu / Hermann Staudinger / /
Position
pitcher / moving forward / physicist / head an extraordinarily successful research group / chemist / /
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