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University of Texas at Dallas Hires Nanoscience Nobel Winner.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2002
By Steve Quinn, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 3--Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid, a Nobel Prize-winning researcher in nanoscience, has become a full-time faculty member at the University of Texas at Dallas.
UTD officials said the appointment is a coup for the university's new NanoTech Institute and the effort to turn the Dallas area into a national nanoscience center.
"He will leapfrog us in a revolutionary way in credibility and activity in the field," said the university's president, Dr. Franklyn Jenifer. "This is not only important from a research point, but it's also important from an economic development point."
Dr. MacDiarmid, 75, was traveling Friday and could not be reached for comment,...
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