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I applied to about 50 universities and was turned down by all of them, some without even a reply to my application.
Aziz Sancar Connected to the Carolinas
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Autobiographical essay written on receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2015; published in The Nobel Prizes 2015 (Les Prix Nobel)
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- essay
- work
- Autobiography, Les Prix Nobel 2015
- year
- 2015
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