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A. Paul Alivisatos
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Chemistry
Berkeley, CA 94720
Web site: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~pagrp/index.html

Chad A. Mirkin
Northwestern University
Department of Chemistry
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3113
Web site: http://www.chem.nwu.edu/brochure/mirkin.html

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 12, September 18, 1999, p. 181. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.