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Three Scientific Clerihews

I. The great Albert Einstein Would appreciate a fine wine, And after sipping a little He would play upon his fiddle II. The legendary chemist Linus Pauling Found the hydrogen and atom bombs appalling, And after winning one for chemistry he would not cease Until he won another Nobel Prize for peace. III. Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie Was just as famous as could be— Amidst the fin-de-siècle pandemonium She discovered radium and polonium.

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