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November 19, 2014

ScienceLives interview with Ralph Cicerone

If you read Ralph Cicerone's Massachusetts Institute of Technology profile, it says as an undergraduate he was a bit unprepared when he arrived at the school in 1961. Apparently, the public high school in his small Western Pennsylvania town didn't offer calculus or a full course in physics, and he'd never taken a final exam. But as the saying goes, "despise not the day of humble beginnings." Cicerone would go on to become an eminent atmospheric scientist whose groundbreaking research in atmospheric chemistry is recognized the world over.

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