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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 deposits around the planet. "
Found
Happens
Just
" All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work. "
Work
Science
Up
" 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 about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field. "
Me
Job
Advice
" Being a woman has helped my career more than it's hindered it. "
More
Being
Woman
" Commercial thermoelectrics are a reality. The automobile industry is now working with conventional thermoelectric materials. They are interested a little bit in nanostructuring because under some conditions, the nanostructures work. "
Working
Reality
Now
" Diversity and inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities in science should not affect the way education is handled or research is carried out. So diversity should not be a problem but rather an opportunity to involve a large talent pool. "
Women
Education
Opportunity
" Electrons are the carriers for electricity, but they are also carriers for thermal energy. This means thermal conductivity is increased when the carrier density is increased. "
Means
Density
Electricity
" Energy is one topic on which different countries can work together collaboratively. If we can all produce energy from an element that's available in abundance on our planet, that would be a good thing, but we have to learn how to produce energy in large quantities, cheaply, efficiently and without detriment to the environment. "
Energy
Work
Together
" 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 special high schools, and my teachers didn't think it was possible to get in. But Hunter sent me a practice exam, and I studied what I needed to know to pass the exam. "
Music
School
Practice
" I behaved the way I was taught to behave: like a woman in the company of men. If you behaved aggressively in the company of men, they wouldn't accept you. "
You
Accept
Company
" If I were not able anymore to come to the lab, that's retirement. Or if I had no more ideas of things. Every year, there's something new that comes along that's too exciting to quit. "
Year
Retirement
Ideas
" If we had improved materials that could be produced cheaply and in large quantities, certainly the thermoelectrics industry could move forward more quickly. "
Forward
Large
Move
" If you don't have material, you don't have an experiment. "
You
Experiment
Material
" I learned to read music before I learned to read script. "
Before
Script
Learned
" Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds. "
Political
Important
Institutions
" In the process of making nanomaterials, we learned that with the electronic density of states, the phonon electronic properties and everything change at the nano-level. So the thermoelectric properties would also be changed. "
Change
Process
Everything
" I think having four children made me a good mentor. As a parent, you get to know young people as they mature and grow up and to also learn about some of the difficulties they face. "
Good
Children
Me
" I think women benefit from being in places and having positions where the quality of work is the criteria, not what you look like. Not every place is like that. "
Work
Women
Place
" It's hard for people who come from traditional homes to take women seriously. I do it myself. We're just not used to seeing women professionals. Women have to go out of their way to prove themselves. "
Seriously
People
Women
" I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well. "
Place
Work
Matter
" I want to try to do something for women in physics worldwide. "
Something
Women
Want
" I was very much taken with carbon fibers because they seemed like the perfect medium to explore transport studies in carbon-based systems. "
Like
Because
Explore
" I would say the first three or four papers on nano-thermoelectricity in bismuth went almost unnoticed, but all of a sudden when Dirac cones came along - pop! - there was huge interest in bismuth-related materials. "
First
Along
Say
" Mentoring is about listening to people, helping them go over what the issues are and how to clarify ways to deal with any problems that may arise. "
Mentoring
Problems
People
" 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, and I was asked to chair a committee on hydrogen for the Department of Energy. "
Great
Surprise
Field
" 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 his music school. Then I got a music scholarship myself, at the age of 6, but that was for a school down in Greenwich Village. I had to take the elevated train and then the subway to get there. "
Age
School
Myself
" 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 be through education. "
Think
Poverty
Education
" People in academia and industry are not accustomed to people who have long lapses in their careers. "
Industry
People
Who
" 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. "
Early
Who
Thinking
" Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench superconductivity. I found that the transition was not continuous, that superconductivity was initially enhanced in the presence of magnetic fields, then it would suddenly fall off. "
Fall
Work
Space
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