化学家应该如何思考?

化学家可以通过非自然的方式创造天然分子。或者他们可以制造出以前从未见过的美丽结构。哪一个应该是他们的圣杯?

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Roald Hoffmann is Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus at Cornell University. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui. His many published works include the play Oxygen, co-written with Carl Djerassi, and several poetry collections, the most recent of which is Constants of the Motion (Dos Madres Press, 2020).

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大众科学 Magazine Vol 268 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “How Should Chemists Think?” in 大众科学 Magazine Vol. 268 No. 2 (), p. 66
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0293-66
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