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Mildred Dresselhaus in 2012 with a bottle of vapor-grown carbon fiber.
Evan McGlinn for The New York Times; thumbnail, Mandel Ngan/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images, 2014
Mildred Dresselhaus
Died on February 20, 2017 at age 86
A professor emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ms. Dresselhaus’s research into the fundamental properties of carbon helped transform it into the superstar of modern materials science and the nanotechnology industry.
Notable Deaths 2017
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