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The Globe and Mail: Canada 150 research chairs draw scientists fleeing Trump, guns and Brexit

By: Ivan Semeniuk
4 Apr, 2018
April 4, 2018
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“The day after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, a prominent professor of chemistry at Harvard University, picked up the phone and called Canada.”

Read the full story on Senior Fellow Alán Aspuru-Guzik’s appointment as a Canada 150 Research Chair at the University of Toronto in the Globe and Mail.

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