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Based on materials from the 1988 Nobel Poster for Chemistry.
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Contents:

Introduction 
The first crystals of membrane proteins 
 The structure of photosynthetic reaction center 
 Photosynthesis: Chemical energy from light 
 A closeup of a photosynthetic primary reaction 
 Highlights in photosynthesis research 
 Perspective 
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