A diverse view of science to catalyse change†
* Corresponding authors
a Laboratory for Chemical Technology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
b Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA
c Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
d
Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
E-mail:
m.j.bojdys.02@cantab.net
e Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0B8, Canada
f Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
g Institute for Molecular Design and Synthesis, Tianjin University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China
h School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
i Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
j Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
k Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
l Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
m Department of Chemistry, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA
n Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford, UK
o Department of Chemistry, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
p Department of Chemistry, Covenant University, CST, Canaanland, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria
q School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
r Department of Chemistry, CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal
s Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
t Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
u Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
v Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM), Leipzig, Germany
w School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
x School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
y Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Capetown, South Africa
z School of Chemistry, The Australian Centre for Nanomedicine, The ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
aa Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UK
ab Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP 13083-970, Brazil
ac Institute of Materials Chemistry, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
ad Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, Durham, NC 27708, USA
ae Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China
af State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, International Joint Research Laboratory of Nano-Micro Architecture Chemistry (NMAC), College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China
ag Department of Chemistry, King's College London, London, UK
Abstract
Valuing diversity leads to scientific excellence, the progress of science and, most importantly, it is simply the right thing to do. We can value diversity not only in words, but also in actions.
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