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• Select The Chemical History of Superior Glass.

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  The Chemical History of Superior Glass.

  Author:Ainissa RamirezFrom:American Scientist (Vol. 110, Issue 3)

  May-June 20221 words Article -...
• Select A wire across the ocean: the first telegraph cable to span the Atlantic revolutionized communication, but it also transformed business, politics, and even language

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  A wire across the ocean: the first telegraph cable to span the Atlantic revolutionized communication, but it also transformed business, politics, and even language

  Author:Ainissa RamirezFrom:American Scientist (Vol. 103, Issue 3)

  May-June 20152,904 words Article 1140LCyrus West Field was such a driven man that he would even enter a room quickly, yet his life was on the brink of idleness. At the age of 34 in 1854, Field had already made a fortune in the paper industry, and faced...
• Select Tungsten's Brilliant, Hidden History: One hundred years ago, William D. Coolidge coaxed tungsten into filaments, illuminating incandescent light bulbs--and the world.

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  Tungsten's Brilliant, Hidden History: One hundred years ago, William D. Coolidge coaxed tungsten into filaments, illuminating incandescent light bulbs--and the world.

  Author:Ainissa RamirezFrom:American Scientist (Vol. 108, Issue 2)

  March-April 20202,340 words Article 1260LWilliam David Coolidge didn't want to leave his beloved Boston or the scientific hum of physics research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But in 1905, his overwhelming school debt and meager instructor's...
• Select Bessemer's volcano and the birth of steel: making this versatile metal plentiful gave rise to Christmas and an understanding of modern physics

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  Bessemer's volcano and the birth of steel: making this versatile metal plentiful gave rise to Christmas and an understanding of modern physics

  Author:Ainissa RamirezFrom:American Scientist (Vol. 104, Issue 1)

  January-February 20162,702 words Article 1130LHenry Bessemer dreamed about steel. He longed to find a way to make an unlimited supply of it, and not knowing how wasn't going to stop him. Bessemer was a prolific 19th-century British inventor with more than 100...
• Select Katherine Johnson's memoir charts her bold trajectory to NASA and beyond.

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  Katherine Johnson's memoir charts her bold trajectory to NASA and beyond.

  Author:Ainissa RamirezFrom:Nature (Vol. 594, Issue 7863) Peer-Reviewed

  June 17, 20211,136 words Book review 1130LMathematician overcame the gravitational pulls of gender and racial discrimination to play a key part in the space race. Mathematician overcame the gravitational pulls of gender and racial discrimination to play a key...
• Select Shining a Light on the Impacts of Our Innovations.

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  Shining a Light on the Impacts of Our Innovations.

  Author:Ainissa RamirezFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20212,068 words Article 1320LIn 2014, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a trio of physicists who struggled for years to bring the blue light-emitting diode (LED) into the world. On a highly anticipated autumn day, the Nobel Committee rightly...
• Select Magnetically driven three-dimensional manipulation and inductive heating of magnetic-dispersion containing metal alloys.

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  Magnetically driven three-dimensional manipulation and inductive heating of magnetic-dispersion containing metal alloys.

  Authors:Joshua D. Calabro, Xu Huang, Brian G. Lewis, and Ainissa G. RamirezFrom:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (Vol. 107, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 16, 2010130 words Report, Author abstr...

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• Select Crystal orientation effects on the onset of plasticity in single-crystal NiTi

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  Crystal orientation effects on the onset of plasticity in single-crystal NiTi

  Authors:Xu Huang and Ainissa G. RamirezFrom:Scripta Materialia (Vol. 65, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 2011147 words Article

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• Select The effects of slider material on the gasification of carbon

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  The effects of slider material on the gasification of carbon

  Authors:Ainissa G. Ramirez, Robert Sinclair, C. Girvin Harkins, and A. Robert LinFrom:Journal of Tribology (Vol. 124, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 2002160 words Article

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• Select Crystallization of amorphous sputtered NiTi thin films

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  Crystallization of amorphous sputtered NiTi thin films

  Authors:Ainissa G. Ramirez, Hai Ni, and Hoo-Jeong LeeFrom:Materials Science & Engineering A (Vol. 438-440) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 25, 2006240 words Report

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• Select Characterization and prediction of texture in laser annealed NiTi shape memory thin films

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  Characterization and prediction of texture in laser annealed NiTi shape memory thin films

  Authors:Gen Satoh, Xu Huang, Ainissa G. Ramirez, and Y. Lawrence YaoFrom:Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering (Vol. 134, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 2012 Author abstract, Rep...

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• Select Lead-free universal solders for optical and electronic devices

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  Lead-free universal solders for optical and electronic devices

  Authors:Hareesh Mavoori, Ainissa G. Ramirez, and Sungho JinFrom:Journal of Electronic Materials (Vol. 31, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 2002194 words Author abstract, Rep...

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