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Scientific perseverance and a dose of ingenuity led to Linda Buck and Richard Axel's discovery of odorant receptors.
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The scent of verbena. Lemony and delicate in small whiffs, the fragrance can be overwhelming in clouds. Drusilla, William Faulkner's implacable Civil War widow in The Unvanquished, wore sprigs of the flower in her hair, saying it was the only scent strong enough to be detected above the smell of horses and courage and so the only one worth wearing. continued...
 
       
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HHMI and the Nobel Prize

Photo of Linda Buck: Dan Lamont
Photo of Richard Axel: Jennifer Altman

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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin,
Fall 2004, pages 4-6.
©2004 Howard Hughes Medical Institute

 
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