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Stereo Chemistry revisited: 'Wicked amazing scientist' James Harris's untold story

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Feb 18, 202646:09Science & Medicine

Little was publicly known about the first Black scientist to codiscover an element. Chemists may know James Harris as the first Black scientist to be credited with codiscovering an element. In fact, we referenced this in...

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