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"… 2008, mid-afternoon. The UCLA campus is mostly quiet for the holidays, but chemistry professor Patrick Harran’s team is working. Harran is in his office, one floor up …"

"… a trenching job or the owner of a roofing company. He was an award-winning chemistry professor with the backing of a powerful university. It took two years. On Dec. 27, …"