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Homer Burton Adkins

(16 Jan 1892 - 10 Aug 1949)

American organic chemist.

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Basic research is like shooting an arrow into the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

— Homer Burton Adkins

Quoted In A. Mackay (ed.), A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991), 2.

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