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“The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we are still apes. A part of our brain is still a paleo-brain and many of the reactions come from our fight or flight instinct. As long as this part of the brain can take over control the rational part of the brain (we will face these problems).”

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Jean-Marie Lehn

Jean-Marie Lehn is a renowned chemist born on September 30, 1939, in France. His significant achievements in the fields of solution chemistry, molecular recognition, and self-assembly, particularly in supramolecular chemistry, earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987. more

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