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[–] 40 points 8 months ago

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Isaac Asimov was a professional writer long before he entered his doctorate program. When he was writing his thesis he was advised to try to make it sound like it had been written by a chemist and not an author.

To practice 'scientific' style writing he wrote a comic piece.

The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated
Thiotimoline

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ezgranet/mywebsite/docs/thiotim-latex.pdf

When he went for his orals, the last question was to explain the exact nature of Thiotimoline.

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