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group in the division involved in modelling lipid membranes and trying to discover why they leak. This was the project in which
Separovic first encountered an NMR instrument โ at the time (the 70s) a new technique โ which played a major role in her research. It was here, too, that she made her first contribution to a scientific paper: using her aptitude for mathematics to determine via 'simple geometry' the smallest possible radius of a
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