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E-Mail IMAGE: Cover for "SMALL SCIENCE: Baracktrema obamai and Other Stories of a Life in Parasitology & Higher Education " view more Credit: World Scientific "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. That discovery marked the end of his career. How he got there is the story Small Science tells in this part-personal and part-scientific memoir. Impatience saved his life at the age of 15, and quick reflexes sa...
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