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The concept of graphene came along in 1947, but nobody paid much attention to it. I was fascinated because it had a linear E versus K while everything else that people were working on at that time had a quadratic dispersion relationship. I wondered why this was and what was so special about it. That was my fascination.

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A carbon nanotube is just a graphene sheet that's rolled up seamlessly, and this happens in nature; carbon nanotubes are found in mineral deposits around the planet.

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My entry into the field of hydrogen came as a great surprise. President Bush of the United States was interested in hydrogen for energy applications, and I was asked to chair a committee on hydrogen for the Department of Energy.

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Energy is one topic on which different countries can work together collaboratively. If we can all produce energy from an element that's available in abundance on our planet, that would be a good thing, but we have to learn how to produce energy in large quantities, cheaply, efficiently and without detriment to the environment.

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People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.

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All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.

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I was very much taken with carbon fibers because they seemed like the perfect medium to explore transport studies in carbon-based systems.

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The Bronx, I remember, was a very poor neighborhood, but that was all that immigrants could afford at that time. Life was tough. I grew up - my father didn't have a job, but there weren't too many people who did have jobs.

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I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well.

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I think women benefit from being in places and having positions where the quality of work is the criteria, not what you look like. Not every place is like that.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 11th, 1930

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