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A serendipitous story in Florence in Italy caused me to begin research on alkaliphiles in 1968. In 1967, after my return from Davis, I found myself at a dead end as far as research was concerned. I have an old passport with a black cover issued on 17 September 1968 (Fig. 4.1) and, using this, I left Haneda Airport on 1 October, and flew to Europe, in the hope that it would lift me out of the slump. I toured many of the places I had visited on my trip in 1960 and spent about a month just seeing the sights.
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Horikoshi, K. (2016). Alkaliphiles. In: Extremophiles. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55408-0_4
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