Academic authorities, first at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and then at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, were aware of his low boredom threshold and let him rove between his native chemistry, physics and medicine, knowing that if this professor was left to himself he might well produce something extraordinary.

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Institutions involved include Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, SRI International, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Boston University, Burnham Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the University of Chicago, and the Institute for Systems Biology.

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