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AGU: The importance of copy editors

Susan Solomon, an atmospheric scientist and lead author on the 2007 IPCC report, had a handy hint for any future authors attending her lecture today on stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change:

Proofread your papers.

The famous 1974 Nature paper by Mario Molina and Sherwood Roland, describing how chlorofluorocarbon chemicals are the trigger for ozone destruction in the stratosphere, contains an embarrassing typo in its title - one that has endured for more than 20 years of citations.

Check it out here.

Posted by Alex Witze on December 13, 2007 02:05 AM |

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Before any of the current Nature staff joined the magazine, in case you were wondering!

Posted by: Maxine | December 13, 2007 09:17 PM

Yes Maxine... but only just! :-)

Posted by: Karl | December 14, 2007 05:44 PM

I guess I should have written "current copyeditors", Karl ;-)

Posted by: Maxine | December 16, 2007 04:50 PM

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