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Hyman Professor of Chemistry Charles M. Lieber recently received this year’s World Technology Award for Materials for his work in nanotechnology...
...that Saddam wasn't finished off in 1991. But there is no justification for mandating his end just because he deserves it and we are frustrated by his presence. There must be better, more creative ways short of war. Otherwise, where does this process end? EFREM LIEBER Fountain Hills, Ariz...
Some women are repelled by the very notion that it's physiologically impossible for them to drink like men. Dr. Charles Lieber, a professor of medicine and pathology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, has spent years studying the effects of alcohol on women's bodies. At one conference he delivered a paper detailing why women can't hold their liquor as well as men. He looked up and noticed that the women in the room were hardly applauding. "They were a bit offended," he recalls. "There's a tendency to reject anything that shows them...
...their February paper in Science, Lieber's group used nanowires to make basic electronic components. Now, he says, he has linked such units together-a discovery that provides a crucial first step towards building complex logical circuits, like microchips...
...seems to me that we really have a way to take something from basic science and change how technologies as we know them are in society today, in a positive way," says Lieber...