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Rockin’ since 1969

August 28, 2009 | Kat Zhao

In 1969, Randy Korotev was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin majoring, tentatively, in chemistry. After pursuing an interest in geochemistry sparked by flipping through the back pages of his chemistry book, Korotev landed in a lab working under a professor who studied lunar rocks—more specifically, lunar rocks brought back from the Apollo 11 [...]

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