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SMALL SCIENCE: Baracktrema obamai and Other Stories of a Life in Parasitology & Higher Education

By Thomas Reid Platt
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By Thomas Reid Platt
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'Long, thin, and cool as hell' was how parasitologist Thomas Platt described the new genus and species of trematode (Baracktrema obamai) he named in honor of the 44th USA president and his 5th cousin, Barack Obama. The story of Baracktrema was picked up by over 200 news outlets worldwide, providing a fitting swansong to an illustrious career revisited in this part-personal and part-scientific memoir.Platt's road to success was not initially smooth. Faced with a brutal tenure rejection at th...

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