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It is no disgrace to be second fiddle to a Stradivarius. (Joseph Nagyvary and his attempt to reproduce 18th century Italian violins)
Joseph Nagyvary heads north on Agrimony Road, away from his office in the sleek new Blochemistry Building at Texas A&M University. Ten minutes later, the 56-year-old professor turns his white Toyota onto a dirt road and pulls up at a rundown agricultural field station on the edge of the sprawling campus in College Station, some hundred miles northwest of Houston. A herd of Hereford cattle grazing in a nearby pasture duly notes his arrival.
Here, in two cluttered, white frame buildings, Nagyvary oversees research into, no, not beef production, but violins-and extremely unconventional violins, at that. The Hungarian-born chemist claims that his instruments come ...
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