So he left and started what became Nektar Therapeutics with Robert Platz of the Stanford Research Institute.

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So in 1990 Patton left to start Inhale with another local researcher, Robert Platz.

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"If you listen to each of the verses, there are lyrical references to Berlin, to Potsdamer Platz, to Nuremberg Strasse, " said Wilson.

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He drove up Leipziger Strasse to Potsdamer Platz and continued on west.

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So he left and started what became Nektar Therapeutics (nasdaq: NKTR - news - people ) with Robert Platz of the Stanford Research Institute.

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This, says Mr Weigand, would have ended Grohe's industrial production in Germany and dealt a devastating blow to the people of Hemer, who have even named their town square Grohe Platz.

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Hundreds of people line up three-deep along the temporary barriers outside the CineStar theater in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, as photographers provide the familiar sparkle of camera flashes that greet every world premiere.

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Cofounder Platz found that spray drying, a method of dehydration used to make powdered milk, produced a consistent particle, but the testing equipment was designed to make only a few grams per day.

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Mr Piano, who comes from a long line of Italian masterbuilders, collaborated with Richard Rogers on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and is now working on a commission at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, as well as on a skyscraper near the Sydney Opera House.

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