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Syrian Refugee And German Scientist Make An Unlikely Team

By Rebecca Davis / NPR
Published August 7, 2017 at 10:40 AM PDT
This story was published more than 9 years ago.
Syrian Refugee And German Scientist Make An Unlikely Team
Erik Nelson Rodriguez for NPR
Syrian Refugee And German Scientist Make An Unlikely Team

Syrian Refugee And German Scientist Make An Unlikely Team

German scientist Matthias Schmidt wants to extract rare earth metals from abandoned mines using bacteria. He has an unlikely partner — Nedal Said, a Syrian refugee scientist who escaped Aleppo.

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