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lawrence's legacy
In the year 2001, Ernest Orlando Lawrence would have been 100 years old.
We celebrate the inventor of the cyclotron, the University of California's
first Nobel Prize winner, who gave his name to two national laboratories
and created the team-based approach to modern science. Read about the
man and his legacy, the revolutionary
idea of the cyclotron, the landmarks
of a remarkable life, and words
of remembrance from those who knew him.
probing
nanoscale superconductivity
Studying single atoms with a special scanning tunneling microscope is
an extraordinary way to probe the electromagnetic characteristics of high-temperature
superconductors. In the high-Tc superconductor BSCCO, researchers have
pinpointed electronic states and quantum spin components of impurity atoms,
suggesting the
important role of magnetism in these still-mysterious materials.
outlining
cell nuclei
To learn what goes wrong when cancer strikes, it's essential to study individual
cells and their nuclei within tissues. But in real tissues and many cell
cultures, cells are often tightly clustered; their boundaries and the borders
of their nuclei are hard to distinguish. Now specialists in biological imaging
and computer visualization have joined forces to develop new methods to
mark and detect the boundaries
of closely packed cells and nuclei crowded together under the microscope.
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