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Edgar Cahoon stands inside his laboratory in Beadle Hall at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Scientific equipment and research materials are visible in the lab around him.

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Edgar Cahoon stands inside his laboratory in Beadle Hall at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Scientific equipment and research materials are visible in the lab around him.

Cahoon elected to National Academy of Sciences

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