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The Edwin L. Thomas research group at MIT has a Web page at http://www-dmse.mit.edu/groups/elt/. 

Edwin L. Thomas
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Cambridge, MA 02139
Web site: http://www-dmse.mit.edu/people/faculty/elthomas/ 

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 23, December 4, 1999, p. 367. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.