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Physics professor Eric Mazur was worried...
...more foraging by one of his graduate students unearthed a tiny bottle of gas that Mazur himself had used when he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. Had the graduate student known that this gas was particularly stable—unlikely to react with other chemicals—he might not have used...
...graduate student put the silicon wafers and the gas in a chamber and shot them with short, intense laser pulses—the focus of Mazur’s research at the time. “The rest,” Mazur said in a recent interview, “is history...
...performing the experiment, Tsing-Hua Her, noticed immediately that something was amiss when he combined the silicon with halogen gas: the silicon had turned black, but the material couldn’t have been burned, since there was no oxygen present in the chamber. Under the microscope, Her and Mazur saw, the surface of the wafers displayed a forest of tiny spikes...
German Professor Peter J. Burgard rose to read the sentiments of Physics Professor Eric Mazur (“mandatory Q evaluation is just going to serve as another excuse to postpone doing anything of substance and further cement our current approach to teaching”). Burgard said that he believed the Q is an unreliable metric of teacher performance...