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Jacqueline K. Barton
California Institute of Technology
Department of Chemistry, M/C 127-72
Pasadena, CA 91125
Web site: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jkbgrp/

David Beratan
Chevron Science Center
Department of Chemistry
219 Parkman Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Web site: http://www.chem.pitt.edu/faculty/beratan.html

Anthony Harriman
Université Louis Pasteur
Ecole Européenne de Chimie,
Polymeres, et Matériaux
25 rue Becquerel
F-67087 Strasbourg Cedex
France

Frederick D. Lewis
Northwestern University
Department of Chemistry
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3113
Web site: http://www.chem.nwu.edu/brochure/lewis.html

Gary B. Schuster
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Atlanta, GA 30332-0400
Web site: http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/faculty/schuster/schuster.html

Nicholas J. Turro
Columbia University
Department of Chemistry
3000 Broadway
Mailstop Code 3119
New York, NY 10027
Web sites: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/faculty/njt.html
http://turmac13.chem.columbia.edu/default.html

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 7, August 14, 1999, p. 104. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.