Medal winner Esther Conwell is a chemistry and atomic physics expert at the University of Rochester in New York.

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The roster of participating schools is impressive: Brandeis University, Duke University, Emory University, Northwestern University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame, University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University, Wake Forest University and Washington University in St.

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Ted Bunch worked with Luann Becker, of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, and Robert Poreda, of the University of Rochester, New York, on the research, which is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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"It used to be more taboo, and there were some questions of business getting in the way of pure science, " says Marjorie Hunter, director of the University of Rochester's Office of Technology Transfer.

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