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A pioneer of research on aureomycin synthesis and bacterial nitrogen fixation in China: Shen San-Chiun

  • Huan Liu , 1,2 ,
  • Jianliang Huang 1 ,
  • Wanying Gao 1 ,
  • Hao Cheng 3
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  • 1. Department for the History of Science and Scientific Archaeology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 2. State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan 430072, China
  • 3. Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
liuhuan520@ustc.edu.cn

Accepted date: 03 Jan 2023

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Huan Liu , Jianliang Huang , Wanying Gao , Hao Cheng . A pioneer of research on aureomycin synthesis and bacterial nitrogen fixation in China: Shen San-Chiun[J]. Protein & Cell, 2023 , 14(8) : 551 -555 . DOI: 10.1093/procel/pwad001

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