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RESEARCH in the distant past was the privilege of the few. In chemistry, during the Middle Ages, the alchemists were practically the only men pursuing it, and they in secret, and not always from the highest of motives. Working by themselves as they did, they had not the great advantage of meeting and discussing with others similarly engaged, and using their progress and mistakes to intensify their own increase in knowledge. Thus it has come about that the science of chemistry is little more than a century old, and its tremendous advances only a few decades.
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Research and its Application 1 . Nature 104, 262 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104262a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/104262a0