Among the most fertile scientific minds of the twentieth century belonged to a Belgian chemist named Dr. Paul Janssen. Janssen was among the first to marry chemistry and pharmacology in search of new drugs. He combined them with a relentless intellect and an enormous capacity for work, becoming by the time he died in 2003, at the age of seventy-seven, the world’s greatest drug inventor. His name was on 850 scientific papers; he presided over a hive of scientists in the Belgian village of Beerse, pop. 16,000, that was a world-class example of innovation through collaboration. Together they
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