Alchemist at large.
It was when he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago in the early 1960s that Marvin Cohen created his first atomic recipe. While the young Marvin Cohen did not exactly turn lead into gold, he showed that--in theory, at least--certain doped semiconductors could become superconductors....
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 367; no. 8329; pp. 31 - 33 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
6/21/2003
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