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Adam Cohen

Nanotechnology

• At age 18 Adam invented a circuit that allows the Scanning Tunnel Microscope probe to pick up a tiny bit of copper at a time, deposit it over the silicon surface, pick up another bit and deposit it and so on.
• It is a more reliable system to pattern microchips. The transfer occurs hundreds of times per second.
• This achievement won him both 1st Place in the 56th Westinghouse Science Talent Search and induction into the National Gallery for America's Young Inventors (1997)