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Seitz said he received a patent for his idea in 1975 and proposed manufacturing the diamond, known as carbon 12, to GE in 1987. Scientists at the GE research laboratories responded at the time with lukewarm interest, he said...
...July of 1990, GE scientists including Dr. Thomas Anthony, a Harvard PhD, announced that they had developed,tested and planned to market the isotopically purecarbon 12 diamond. GE did not credit the originalidea to Seitz...
...hold the US patent that explicitly teacheshow [to make carbon 12]," says Seitz. "[GE] justup and ran off with it." The "60 Minutes" programwill report that Seitz's patent is cited in the GEpatent, Seitz said...
Bloembergen, along with former Physicsdepartment chair and Mallinckrodt Professor ofPhysics Richard Wilson and former presidentialscience adviser George Keyworth, co-signed aletter in the fall of 1990 to the GE Board ofDirectors which urged them to credit andcompensate Seitz for his idea...
...GE pretended he didn't do something when hedid," Wilson said. "It's not appropriate to ignore[giving credit for] an idea someone already...