In the ad, little girls play with Millie Dresselhaus dolls and dress up in Millie Dresselhaus wigs and sweaters. “What if Millie Dresselhaus were as famous as any celebrity?”For its part, carbon is as capricious as any celebrity. Dr. Dresselhaus used resonant magnetic fields and lasers to map out the electronic energy structure of carbon. “She was a very domineering person,” Dr. Dresselhaus said in an interview in 2012. One reason Dr. Dresselhaus said she chose to study carbon was its relative unpopularity.

Source: New York Times February 24, 2017 01:33 UTC