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Soviet Crystallographer, Life after death?

In science, it's not the discovery that's important; it's publishing the paper describing that discovery. And success – or at least continued employment – often depends upon getting new papers published on a regular basis.

Among the indisputable greats at doing this – and the winner of the 1992 Ig Nobel literature prize – was Yuri Struchkov, a Soviet crystallographer who published 948 scientific papers between the years 1981 and 1990, an average of one every 3.9 days.

Struchkov was so prolific that even after he died in 1995, papers with his name attached to them continued to appear for several more years.

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