Word: atom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...female tenured Faculty members in the Department of Physics, Prentiss has made many significant discoveries in physics. In particular, she is known for creating and expanding the field of atom lithography--where light is used to focus matter instead of having lenses focus light, according to Joseph H. Thywissen, a fourth-year graduate student who works for Prentiss...
...many benefits of applying atom lithography include the creation of high-precision length-standards, or micro-rulers, Thywissen says. Atom lithography also shows a way in which the circuitry that stores information in silicon chips can be etched with much finer detail than is possible under current methods of circuit definition...
...laboratory at Harvard, in conjunction with the Whitesides group of the Department of Chemistry, Prentiss has continued to conduct experiments using atom lithography...
NUCLEAR Before the war, Saddam had been pressing ahead fast at 10 sites, and some analysts believe he was within months of acquiring at least a rudimentary atom bomb. The inspectors believe they have dismantled the program, but some of its weapons components and equipment have never been recovered. The secret overseas purchasing operation Saddam set up before the war is still functioning, and it could be put to work to buy and import nuclear technology...
...What we are selling is totally harmless," the source said. "What we are providing is not a Web site that tells you how to build a suitcase atom bond, not pornography and not one of the 250 racial and ethnic hate sites. What we are offering for sale are such dangerous items as a paper on the relationship between Hamlet and his mother...