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Theoretical chemist David Reichman, recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences, is making sense of experimental findings.
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Alexis Abramson’s first love was the study of heat—how to use it, conserve it and eliminate waste.
When is learning possible? For Moïse Blanchard, a postdoc at the Data Science Institute, the question is mathematical.