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The Brilliant but Widely Loathed Scientist Behind the AstraZeneca Vaccine

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For decades, the Oxford molecular geneticist Adrian Hill freely lambasted his colleagues’ research. Then they started tearing apart the AstraZeneca vaccine he helped create.

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