The 2003 nobel prize in chemistry eluded the Roumanian chemist Gheorghe Benga who first discovered the aquaporins

Revista de Chimie

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 439-443

  Cǎproiu, Miron Teodor ^a  

^a Costin D Nenitzescu Center for Organic Chemistry ^*  (Romania)

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