Headline : Larry Young, Who Studied the Chemistry of Love, Dies at 56

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Prairie voles are stocky rodents and Olympian tunnellers that surface in grassy areas to feast on grass, roots and seeds with their chisel-shaped teeth, sprouting migraines in farmers and gardeners.

But to Larry Young, they were the secret to understanding romance and love.

Professor Young, a neuroscientist at Emory University in Atlanta, used prairie voles in a series of experiments that revealed the chemical process for the pirouette of heart-fluttering emotions that poets have tried to put into words for centuries.

He died on March 21 in Tsukuba, Japan, where he was helping to organize a scientific conference. He was 56. His wife, Anne Murphy, said the cause was a heart attack.

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