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12 quotes by Mildred S. Dresselhaus

Mildred Dresselhaus (born Mildred Spiewak on November 11, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York), known as the "queen of carbon science", is an institute professor and professor of physics and electrical engineering (emerita) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.

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Energy is one topic on which different countries can work together collaboratively. If we can all produce energy from an element that's available... →

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Hunter High School was a real turning point for me. I found out about its existence through the music school. Nobody I knew had gone to one of these... →

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My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I was 4 to be close to... →

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People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.

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A carbon nanotube is just a graphene sheet that's rolled up seamlessly, and this happens in nature; carbon nanotubes are found in mineral... →

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At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something... →

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One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to... →

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Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench... →

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My entry into the field of hydrogen came as a great surprise. President Bush of the United States was interested in hydrogen for energy applications... →

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The concept of graphene came along in 1947, but nobody paid much attention to it. I was fascinated because it had a linear E versus K while... →

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When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln Lab, they... →

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