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Kensall Wise, 65.(Focus)
Crain's Detroit Business, May, 2007 by Begin, Sherri
Byline: Sherri Begin Professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and director of the Engineering Research Center University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Imagine a device similar to a wristwatch that could detect pollution and other contaminants in the air, as soon as they appear.
University of Michigan researcher Kensall Wise imagined it and began work on it at Stanford University in the early 1970s before he joined UM as one of the early pioneers of microelectromechanical systems (electronic and mechanical devices smaller than the eye can see, known as MEMS). He tabled his research on the wristwatch gas analyzer because MEMS technology was too expensive for the application at that time. Wise picked the wristwatch gas analyzer research back up...
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