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Jonathan A. King

Jonathan A. King

Jonathan A. King is Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biology at MIT, the coauthor of more than two hundred articles on protein folding, and chair of the Nuclear Disarmament Working Group at Mass Peace Action. icon

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