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" 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. "

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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. "

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Just

" People in academia and industry are not accustomed to people who have long lapses in their careers. "

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" The Bronx, I remember, was a very poor neighborhood, but that was all that immigrants could afford at that time. Life was tough. I grew up - my father didn't have a job, but there weren't too many people who did have jobs. "

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" 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. "

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Process

Everything

" 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. "

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You

Company

" 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. "

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" I want to try to do something for women in physics worldwide. "

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Women

Want

" 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 had 1,000 men and two women. But we had a very good boss, and he treated us just like everybody else. "

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Today

Boss

Students

" Being a woman has helped my career more than it's hindered it. "

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Being

Woman

" 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. "

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First

Along

Say

" Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds. "

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Political

Important

Institutions

" We're all concerned about sustainable energy. If we could recycle waste heat to generate energy, we could use it for something useful. "

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Energy

Sustainable

Waste

" 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. "

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Women

Place

" 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. "

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Fall

Work

Space

" 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. "

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People

" 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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Work

Science

" 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. "

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Work

Matter

" 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. "

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Education

Opportunity

" 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. "

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School

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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 about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field. "

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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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Who

Thinking

" The holy grail would be to turn a knob, and out comes the nanotube of the right diameter and chirality. "

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Grail

Would

" 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. "

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School

Myself

" The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too. "

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Best

Lady

Students

" 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. "

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Means

Density

Electricity

" 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. "

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Seriously

People

Women

" I was very much taken with carbon fibers because they seemed like the perfect medium to explore transport studies in carbon-based systems. "

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Because

Explore

" The main thread of my work is structure property relations and materials. If you have certain atoms, why do they attract each other? Why do they make compounds? Why do they do what they do? "

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Structure

Make

" 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. "

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Reality

Now