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Letter: For the record

Published 31 March 2010

• Green chemist Jim Hutchison is at the University of Oregon, not Oregon State University as we said (13 March, p 34).

• We said alkali-vapour lasers have “mass-to-power ratios that far exceed other lasers”; we meant “power-to-mass” (27 February, p 22).

• We referred to “Antonie Leeuwenhoek” as “father of the microscope” (27 February, p 36). His family name was van Leeuwenhoek; our dictionary calls him Antoni, though many other spellings are also in use.

Issue no. 2754 published 3 April 2010

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