A fifth-grader in Kansas City clicked ball-and-stick atoms together in science class and asked her teacher if she’d made a real molecule — he photographed it, sent it to a chemistry professor, and at ten years old she became co-author of a published paper on a structure nobody had ever described
A ten-year-old's casual question about her chemistry model kit led to a published paper describing a molecular structure that had eluded professional scientists for decades. —…
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