21. News Release: Steven Chu March 14, 2000 nobel Prize winning physicist steven chu will discuss his researchin a lecture at Trinity University on Tuesday, April 4, at 8 pm in Laurie http://www.trinity.edu/departments/public_relations/news_releases/decoursey.html

Carolyn Wheat cwheat@trinity.edu Nobel Prize Winning Physicist to Discuss His Research at Trinity University March 14, 2000 - Nobel Prize winning physicist Steven Chu will discuss his research in a lecture at Trinity University on Tuesday, April 4, at 8 p.m. in Laurie Auditorium. Chu is professor of physics and applied physics at Stanford University. His presentation, "Watching Enzymes Unfold and Refold, One Molecule at a Time," is the DeCoursey Nobel Lecture. Admission is free. Chu was one of the first scientists to figure out how laser beams could be used to exert forces on a small particle, such as a biological cell. Known as "optical tweezers," this method is used to trap microscopic particles in water and is having major implications in biology and medicine. Chu also invented optical "molasses" in which laser beams can be used to slow individual atoms down to such a slow speed that they acquire a temperature only a very small fraction of a degree above absolute zero. His work on optical molasses, which led to a Nobel Prize, allowed researchers to make atoms so cold that a completely new state of matter was observed. This peculiar state of matter, known as the Bose-Einstein condensate, represents one of the most important discoveries in physics in the last 50 years. Chu has also developed methods to simultaneously visualize and manipulate single bio-molecules. The recipient of numerous awards, including a Humboldt Senior Scientist award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chu was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

22. Steven Chu Colloquium steven chu, winner of the nobel Prize in Physics, will give a public lectureand a colloquium at the University of South Carolina on February 21. http://www.physics.sc.edu/~physmgr/Chu.html

Steven Chu Colloquium Steven Chu, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, will give a public lecture and a colloquium at the University of South Carolina on February 21. The Nobel Foundation cited Professor Chu "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light". Abstract of the Public Lecture: Professor Chu is currently on the faculty of Stanford University. Further information about his life and work can be found on the Stanford University Department of Physics web site, and on the Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation. PUBLIC LECTURE Professor Steven Chu Stanford University "Holding on to Atoms and Bio-molecules with Lasers" Thursday, February 21 at 7:00 PM Jones Physical Sciences Center Room 210 COLLOQUIUM Professor Steven Chu Stanford University "A New Measurement of the Fine Structure Constant" Thursday, February 21 at 3:00 PM Law School Auditorium Last updated 2/13/02 by physmgr

23. News Archive nobel Laureate steven chu Dr. steven chu of Stanford University will give a PublicLecture on Thursday, February 21, 2002 in PSC 210. Astronomy Conference. http://www.physics.sc.edu/newsArch.html

NEWS ARCHIVE Carolina Spin 2003 Conference March 14-15, 2003 Physics of Spin in Condensed Matter Honoring the Contributions of Horacio Farach and Charles Poole, Jr to the Field of Spin Resonance. MINOS Collaboration Meeting March 6-9, 2003. Nobel Laureate Jerome Friedman of Massachusetts Institute of Technology will give a Public Lecture "Are We Really Made of Quarks" on Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 6:00 PM in the Law School Auditorium of USC. Faculty Position - Experimental Condensed Matter Physicist sought to work with new USC NanoCenter. Carolina Vortex Workshop This one-day focused workshop addresses the latest developments in the statics and dynamics of flux vortices in superconductors and superfluids. New Faculty - Ralf Gothe joined the Medium Energy Nuclear Group. Student Awards Shengjun Wu, Francisco X. Yumiceva, and Christine Gibson win graduate student awards. Barbara Szczerbinska is nominated for AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Grayden Jay Gillis receives the Dean's Scholarship in Physics. New Faculty.

24. October 17, 1997, Hour 2:Steven Pinker/Bill Phillips And Steven Chu In this segment of Science Friday, join host Ira Flatow as he talks to Bill Phillipsand steven chu, two of the cowinners of the 1997 nobel Prize in physics. http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1997/Oct/hour2_101797.html

THIS WEEK ON  SCIENCE FRIDAY... Science Friday Archives October Hour Two: Steven Pinker/Bill Phillips and Steven Chu How is it that we come to be able to do the things we do? How do we manage to remember things, make choices, act intuitively, fall in love, use common sense even talk? According to cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, we have the skills we have and act the way we do because of the way that our brains have evolved. The human brain, Pinker argues, is made up of many different highly specialized modules, just as a machine or a computer program is made up of different units. These modules have slowly evolved to deal with the human environment but they have adapted themselves to deal with a Stone Age world, populated by nomadic hunter-gatherers, not our modern world. Evolution takes a long time, Pinker argues - and modern life has only existed for a blink of an eye, evolutionarily speaking. As a result, some parts of human behavior really don't have a good explanation in today's world - because they aren't responding to today's world. Steven Pinker photo by Bethany Versoy Pinker's new book, "How the Mind Works," draws connections between evolutionary psychology and artificial intelligence in unusual ways. Some people, especially neurobiologists and evolutionary biologists, find some of Pinker's assertions faulty. Join host Ira Flatow as he talks to Steven Pinker about his ideas of how the mind works, on this segment of Science Friday.

25. American Scientist: Interview With Steven Chu 1997 nobel Prize in Physics. We begin with a few excerpts from the interview publishedin our JanuaryFebruary 1988 issue. The sketches are from steven chu’s http://www.americanscientist.org/articles/98articles/chu.html

February 1998 January - February 1998 Interview with Steven Chu Could you explain something about the physics of slowing those atoms down of creating what you came to call optical molasses? What are the actual dynamics of the molasses? Sketch 1. Intuitively, what did you expect to happen? Did you expect some other result? We were expecting that the damping forces that slowed down the atom would not be that strong ... [but we] put the atoms in the optical molasses, and they cooled to the temperatures predicted and they hung around for the time predicted. When Eric Cornell, Carl Wieman and their coworkers at the National Institute of Standards and the University of Colorado created the first Bose-Einstein condensation of a dilute gas in 1995, what was your reaction to that accomplishment? What would you say is the significance of creating this condensate? What have been some of the other applications of atom cooling and trapping? Sketch 2. Atom in a sea of photons (top) moves like a dust particle in a fluid (bottom).

26. Three Win Physics Nobel D. Phillips, steven chu, and French scientist Claude CohenTannoudji were awardedthe nobel Prize in Physics for development of methods to trap and cool atoms. http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/nobelscience1015/

Cooled and Trapped Atoms With Laser Light Three Win Physics Nobel RELATED STORIES Three Win Chemistry Nobel Economics Nobel Honors Options Industry Peace Prizewinner Lashes Out Italian Playwright Wins Nobel Lit. Prize ... Alfred Nobel: a Biography WORLD NEWS added E-mail ABCNEWS.com AWARDS GIVEN Dario Fo Stanley B. Prusiner International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes Steven Chu, William D. Phillips and Claude Cohen- Tannoudji Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker and Jens C. Skou American physicists (from left) William D. Phillips, Steven Chu, and French scientist Claude Cohen-Tannoudji were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for development of methods to trap and cool atoms. (AP Photo) ABCNEWS.com STOCKHOLM, Sweden , Oct. 15 ground-breaking experiments to cool and trap atoms with laser light. Steven Chu of Stanford University, William D. Phillips of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of France will share the $1 million awarded with the prize on Dec. 10. Type in a year (after 1900) and pick a category to see who won.

27. AP - Nobel Prizewinner Talks About AP (7/98) On the morning of October 15, 1997, the winners of the nobel Prize for Physicswere announced; they included two Americans, steven chu and William Phillips http://www.collegeboard.com/ap/students/physics/nobel.html

AP Physics Leads to Nobel Prize On the morning of October 15, 1997, the winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics were announced; they included two Americans, Steven Chu and William Phillips, and a French colleague, Claude Cohen-Tanoudji. That same evening, Steven Chu was interviewed for PBS's NewsHour, in which he credited former AP Physics teacher, Thomas Miner, for his role in attracting him to the subject: "I had a terrific high school Physics teacher in public school in Garden City, Long Island, New York. I had Physics as a junior, and then had Advanced Placement Physics as a senior. It was absolutely wonderful ..." About Thomas Miner So what was it that made Chu's AP Physics teacher so special? We decided to ask Stephen Chu to elaborate on his statement. Chu told us, "He was very clear, quiet, not at all flashy. What he said was always correct. I have a son in tenth grade, and am sometimes horrified to see facts that are basically wrong in his textbooks. One could trust Thomas Miner to always be right." In addition, Miner inspired a true love of physics in his students. Chu can distinctly remember a lecture in which Miner explained the essence of the subject. Studying physics, he said, involves asking very simple questions. "Unlike biology, which deals with important but complex problems, or literature and art that deal with even more complex issues where you're studying deep and profound questions, physics deals with really simple questions, which can be resolved through experiments. With these small steps, a solid foundation is built so that the next generation of scientists can build on the ideas and experiments with confidence." Miner explained that, in physics, progress is made in "itty bitty steps, each one accumulating over time."

28. Leung: Chinese Americans Project steven chu steven, the newest nobel Prize Winner for Physics, won the nobel Prizefor his work on how to trap atoms and particles by using laser light. http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch405/IUP/chineseScience.html

SCIENCE Introduction Dr. Chen Ning Yang Dr. Tsung Dao Lee Dr. Steven Chu ... Samuel C.C. Ting INTRODUCTION All the way to the earlier time of this century, the most important and successful thing the Chinese have contributed to the U.S. society was the railroad. Now, in 1998, we can tell you that Chinese have done a lot besides the railroad building. One of the things we are so proud of is a number of famous scientists have discovered a lot to help our society. All these successful Chinese American scientists share one common point. It is that they are all proud to be Chinese and they have tried their best to contribute something to their second mother, that is America. Their inventions shocked the whole world. Let's hear some of their stories. Dr. Chen Ning Yang : Chen Ning Yang, Nobel Prize recipient and Director of the Theoretical Physics Department at State University of New York at Stony Book, is the 1992 Roy E. Moon Distinguished Lecturer in Science at Angelo State University. He is among the word's foremost theoretical physicists and mathematicians and is known for his work on elementary particles.

29. Search Results For Steven Berkoff - Encyclopædia Britannica - The Online Encycl whose experiments using laser light to cool and trap atoms earned him the nobel Prizefor Physics in 1997. He shared the award with steven chu and Claude Cohen http://search.britannica.com/search?query=Steven Berkoff

30. Search Results For B Physics - Encyclopædia Britannica - The Online Encyclopedi chu, steven American physicist who, with Claude CohenTannoudji and William D.Phillips, was awarded the 1997 nobel Prize for Physics for their independent http://search.britannica.com/search?query=b physics

31. NIST PHYSICIST WILLIAM PHILLIPS WINS 1997 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS National Institute of Standards and Technology, today was named a cowinner of the1997 nobel Prize in Physics. He shares the award with steven chu of Stanford http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/n97-26.htm

NIST PHYSICIST WILLIAM PHILLIPS WINS 1997 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Linda Joy Oct. 15, 1997 NIST 97-26 William D. Phillips , a leading researcher in ultra-low temperature atomic physics at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, today was named a co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics . He shares the award with Steven Chu of Stanford University and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Collège de France and École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences selected the trio for work they did independently on the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. Phillips will receive his Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 10, 1997. A resident of Gaithersburg, Md., and a NIST Fellow since 1996, Phillips is internationally known for advancing basic knowledge and new techniques to chill atoms to extremely low temperatures. The cooling and trapping of atoms , a discipline that emerged in the mid-1970s with the advent of laboratory lasers, have allowed scientists to observe and measure quantum phenomena in atoms that seem to defy the physical principles governing our tangible room-temperature realm. After earning his Ph.D. in physics and completing post-doctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Phillips came to NIST (then the National Bureau of Standards) in 1978. His official duties at NBS originally were related to precision electrical measurements. However, he explains, he was allowed to use "stolen moments to dabble in laser-cooling" with lab equipment he brought from MIT. With encouragement from NBS management, he expanded the experiments and demonstrated that a beam of neutral atoms could be slowed and cooled with radiation pressure from a laser.

32. Nobel Laureate Who Developed Methods To Trap Atoms With Laser Light To Give Scie CHAPEL HILL Dr. steven chu, who won the 1997 nobel Prize in physics for developingmethods to cool and trap atoms with laser light, will speak March 22 at http://www.unc.edu/news/newsserv/univ/feb00/chuspeak021400.htm

NEWS SERVICES 210 Pittsboro Street, Campus Box 6210 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-6210 (919) 962-2091 FAX: (919) 962-2279 www.unc.edu/news/newsserv NEWS For immediate use Feb. 14, 2000 No. 79 Photos: See end of story to download color photos of Chu working in a lab as well as a head-and-shoulders shot. Nobel laureate who developed methods to trap atoms with laser light to give science seminar CHAPEL HILL Dr. Steven Chu, who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics for developing methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light, will speak March 22 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His free, public lecture, "Holding onto Atoms and Molecules with Laser Beams ," will be held at 7 p.m. in the Hill Hall auditorium, located on north campus near Franklin Street. "We at Carolina are enthusiastic about providing a steady stream of the world’s outstanding scientists for the public to enjoy and learn from," Forest said. "Steven Chu surely fits this description. We hope a broad range of people interested in this fascinating field will join us March 22 nd . It’s a unique opportunity to hear and see one of the true great scientists of our time in a forum for the general public."

33. Pictures Gallery Of The Nobel Prize Winners In Physics Translate this page The nobel Prize in Physics. 1998. Robert B. Laughlin Horst L. Störmer DanielC. Tsui 1997. steven chu Claude Cohen-Tannoudji William D. Phillips 1996. http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/physpicnobel.html

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34. Steven Chu :: Essays And Term Papers In 1997, the nobel Prize in Physics was given to Professor steven chu of StanfordUniversity along with two of his colleagues, William D. Phillips and Claude http://www.academon.com/lib/paper/10346.html

Free Summary of Paper #10346 Please use the links below if you came to this page directly from a search engine or another site: BUY THIS TERM PAPER LOOK FOR MORE RESEARCH PAPERS, ESSAYS AND BOOK REPORTS Steven Chu Term Paper #: # of words: # of sources: Written: Price: Hide: Author: Research Group Author's background: We have been writing papers, reports, and essays for over 30 years. Our staff is composed of professional writers who write academic research for a living. You can count on our quality and experience. Abstract From The Paper "The Nobel Prize is perhaps the most coveted recognition of excellence in a given field. In 1997, the Nobel Prize in Physics was given to Professor Steven Chu of Stanford University along with two of his colleagues, William D. Phillips and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. The contributions of these three men mounted over the span of more than a decade of research and experimentation, culminating in the development of groundbreaking new methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. Steven Chu has been an avid Physics enthusiast ever since his high school days in Garden City, New York, where under the tutelage of his Advanced Placement Physics teacher he was given his first taste of genuine lab experience(College Board Online, 1998)."

35. Steven Chu Louis, Mo. steven chu shared the 1997 nobel Prize in Physics for thedevelopment of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0880453

The # 1 wireless color security cam! Ultimate home movie ! Genuine Indian and Asian astrology reports and consultations by reputed Vedic Astrologers. Step-by-step guide to finding money for a growing business All Infoplease All Almanacs General Entertainment Sports Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Infoplease Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... Fact Monster Kids' reference Info:Daily Fun facts Homework Center Newsletter You've got info! Help Site Map Visit related sites from: Family Education Network Biography Steven Chu physicist Born: Birthplace: St. Louis, Mo. Steven Chu shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. Chu's parents had come to the United States in the early 1940s to study and decided to stay when war made a return to China unlikely. His family tree claims many scientists and engineers, and Chu professes to be the academic black sheep, holding only one advanced degree. While his illustrious relatives attended Ivy League schools, future Nobelist Chu attended the University of Rochester for his undergraduate degree and Berkeley for graduate work. In 1978 he went to work at Bell Laboratories, where he did his award-winning work. He went on to teach at Stanford and continued his laser cooling and trapping work, as well as research on polymer physics and biology. Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips About Us Contact Us Link to Infoplease ... Privacy

36. Press Release: The Nobel Prize In Physics 1997 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1997 nobel Prizein Physics jointly to Professor steven chu, Stanford University, Stanford http://physics.nist.gov/News/Nobel/OtherSites/physics97.html

Information Further information is available at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Information Department, Box 50005, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden E-mail: info@kva.se , Website: www.kva.se The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Steven Chu , Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Dr. William D. Phillips , National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. Atoms floating in optical molasses Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji , and William D. Phillips Slowing down atoms with photons Doppler cooling and optical molasses The slowing down effect described above forms the basis for a powerful method of cooling atoms with laser light. The method was developed around 1985 by Steven Chu and his co-workers at the Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. They used six laser beams opposed in pairs and arranged in three directions at right angles to each other. Sodium atoms from a beam in vacuum were first stopped by an opposed laser beam and then conducted to the intersection of the six cooling laser beams. The light in all six laser beams was slightly red-shifted compared with the characteristic colour absorbed by a stationary sodium atom. The effect was that whichever direction the sodium atoms tried to move they were met by photons of the right energy and pushed back into the area where the six laser beams intersected. At that point there formed what to the naked eye looked like a glowing cloud the size of a pea, consisting of about a million chilled atoms. This type of cooling was named Doppler cooling.

37. 1997 Nobel Prize In Physics nobel Lecture Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms Rev. The Physics Prizewas awarded jointly to William D. Phillips, Professor steven chu of Stanford http://physics.nist.gov/News/Nobel/1997nobel.html

Dr. William D. Phillips shares the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics Official news release: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces the Nobel Prize in Physics Statements and congratulations: Dr. Phillips upon notification of the award U.S. House of Representatives: Committee on Science Department of Commerce (DOC), and NIST: DOC Secretary NIST Acting Director NIST Physics Laboratory Director NIST News Release Nobel Lecture: Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms Rev. Mod. Phys. PDF 843 kB) Background: Research projects of Dr. Phillips in the Laser Cooling and Trapping Group Short history of Dr. Phillips' career , and an abbreviated Curriculum Vitae Photographs of Dr. Phillips in his Laser Cooling and Trapping laboratory. A Sampling of Dr. Phillips' technical work: Dr. Phillips reports on results with cold atoms at the 1996 AAAS Meeting. Claude N. Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips, "New Mechanisms For Laser Cooling" Physics Today 33-40, October 1990. ( PDF 15.1 MB)

38. Physics News Update Number 341 - THE 1997 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS THE 1997 nobel PRIZE FOR PHYSICS has been won by steven chu of Stanford, Claude CohenTannoudjiof the Ecole Normale Superieure in France, and William Phillips http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/1997/split/pnu341-1.htm

AIP HOME PAGE Online Journal Publishing Service AIP Journals Publishing Services Science Policy History Center Working at AIP Site Index Physics News Update The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 341 (Story #1), October 15, 1997 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE 1997 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS Scientific American , March 1987, trapping atoms, William Phillips; July 1993, accurate time measurements, Norman Ramsey; February 1992, Steven Chu, trapping neutral particles; Physics Today , October 1990, Phillips and Cohen-Tannoudji, laser cooling; also see Official 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics site Click on Logo to Return to AIP Home Page American Institute of Physics One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740-3843 Email: aipinfo@aip.org Phone: 301-209-3100; Fax: 301-209-0843

39. Commemoration Site At Former Residence Of Nobel Laureate's Ancestors Commemoration Site at Former Residence of nobel Laureate's Ancestors. The site ofthe former residence of Chinese American Professor steven chu's ancestors has http://fpeng.peopledaily.com.cn/english/200103/26/eng20010326_66027.html

Help Sitemap Archive Advanced Search ... PHOTO GALLERY INTERACTIVE Message Board Feedback Voice of Readers China Quiz ... Employment MIRROR U.S. Mirror Japan Mirror Tech-Net Mirror Edu-Net Mirror Monday, March 26, 2001, updated at 18:21(GMT+8) Life Commemoration Site at Former Residence of Nobel Laureate's Ancestors The site of the former residence of Chinese American Professor Steven Chu's ancestors has been recently set up for commemoration in Taicang City, east China's Jiangsu Province. Steven Chu, born in 1948, is now a Professor of physics at Stanford University in the United States . He is also an academician of the American Academy of Sciences and a foreign- nationality member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Chu shared the 1997 Nobel physics prize with Doctor William D. Phillips and French Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. Print Discuss It Recommend to your friend In This Section Western China Horsemanship Festival to Be Held China Human Museum to Be Erected in Yunnan Yunnan to Build Chinese Mankind Museum Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Most Hail-Hit Area in China ... New Airport Operational in Southwest China The site of the former residence of Chinese American Professor Steven Chu's ancestors has been recently set up for commemoration in Taicang City, east China's Jiangsu Province. Advanced Search Mirror in U.S.

40. Mercury News | 08/05/2002 | Q&A: Nobel Winner Steven Chu, Atom Trapper 05, 2002, Q A nobel winner steven chu, atom trapper. Love of science is what makesa great scientist, and steven chu is downright passionate about his work. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/3807185.

Click here to visit other RealCities sites Help Contact Us Site Index ... News by Email Search Search the Archives Financial Markets Sponsored by: News Mercury News Top of Wires Columnists ... Columnists Thursday, Apr 17, 2003 Good Morning Silicon Valley Posted on Mon, Aug. 05, 2002 Love of science is what makes a great scientist, and Steven Chu is downright passionate about his work. Chu, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics and a professor at Stanford University, is friendly and talkative in any situation, but he is always thinking about his work. His achievement, developing methods to cool and trap atoms using laser light, allows scientists to cool gas molecules to fractions of a degree above absolute zero, making it possible to ``grab'' molecules or watch them fall under the force of gravity. This discovery has helped scientists in many fields and has future applications. Chu has applied these techniques to manipulate individual DNA strands and to increase the accuracy of atomic clocks. Chu recently discussed his work and its impact with Michael Smith, who graduated from Palo Alto High in June. Smith plans to attend Stanford in the fall. Smith :What first made you interested in science?

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