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Ludwik Leibler
Unité Mixte de Recherches
CNRS – Elf Atochem (UMR 167)
BP 108
95, rue Danton
92303 Levallois-Perret Cedex
France
Web sites: http://www.elf-atochem.fr
http://www.cnrs.fr

Richard P. Wool
University of Delaware
Department of Chemical Engineering
Newark, DE 19716
http://www.che.udel.edu/faculty/full/wool/

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 8, August 21, 1999, p. 118. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.