| 2. | Ralph C. Merkle | | | A nanotechnolgy researcher, Alcor Director (Cryonics), principal fellow of Zyvex, advisor to the Foresight Institute, executive editor of the journal Nanotechnology and co-inventor of public key cryptography. Also a former research scientist at Xerox PARC.
www.merkle.com |
| 3. | Richard E. Smalley | | | Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics - 1996 Chemistry Nobel Prize Winner. Professor Smalley's research laboratory is best known for the discovery of C60 and the fullerenes in 1985 and much of the subsequent development of this field.
smalley.rice.edu |
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