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Philip W. Anderson
Princeton University
Department of Physics
339 Jadwin Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544

Yoichi Ando
Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
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Komae, Tokyo 201-8511
Japan

Steven A. Kivelson
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Physics and Astronomy
405 Hilgard Avenue
Knudsen Hall 6-130L
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Zhi-xun Shen
Stanford University
Laboratory for Advanced Materials
McCullough Building 357B
476 Lomita Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-4045

Shin-ichi Uchida
University of Tokyo
Department of Superconductivity
Tokyo 113-8656
Japan

Xingjiang Zhou
Stanford University
Department of Physics
Applied Physics and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Stanford, CA 94305

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 15, October 9, 1999, p. 229. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.