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Leading chemist with an unstoppable flow of ideas and quirky solutions to problems whose chaotic laboratory was known as the Jungle

Malcolm Green was a brilliant chemist, on this his researchers agreed, but that did not stop them being baffled by him. So athletically did his line of thought leap over convention, dart past precedent, and break out into unexplored terrain, that it often reached its conclusion before they had even clocked where it was going. In the King’s Arms pub in Oxford, after he...Malcolm Green was a brilliant chemist, on this his researchers agreed, but that did not stop them...Malcolm Green was a brilliant chemist, on this his researchers agreed, but that did not stop them...