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yongjik • last Thursday at 11:37 PM
Off-topic, but it always amuses me that the sleepy town of Livermore, CA, known locally for its vineyards and an outlet mall, is immortalized in the Periodic Table, instead of the other greater places like New York or Chicago.
Chicago even had the world's first nuclear reactor, but no luck.
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Biology, not chemistry but there's also the Sonic Hedgehog pathway [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog_signaling_pathway