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My most pleasant memories from childhood are the flowering of the almond and plum trees in our orchard in the spring. In those early years, I began to learn about Islam and was convinced that Paradise must look like our orchard when the almond trees were in full bloom.
Aziz Sancar Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Autobiographical essay written on receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2015; published in The Nobel Prizes 2015 (Les Prix Nobel)
- form
- essay
- work
- Autobiography, Les Prix Nobel 2015
- year
- 2015
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