From: Harry S. Hawk (habs@panix.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 1997 - 15:21:23 MST
Here is adams' bio as posted on the Westinghouse WWW site:
Adam Ezra Cohen, 17, of 500 E. 63rd St., New York, entered an
engineering projectQmerely the most impressive of his many
inventionsQin the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. His technique,
which he calls near-field photolithography, creates extremely small
patterns on various surfaces as building its fundamental component, a
shas won honors on the math team. He also competes on the soccer,
cross-country, and track teams. The son of Drs. Joel and Audrey Cohen,
Adam hopes to study physics at Harvard.
/hawk
a conscious being, Harry S. Hawk wrote:
>
>
> There has been much press in teh NYC area about Adam Cohen who
> recetnly won the Westinghouse Sciense Talnet Search. He was credited
> in the local paper w/ making a printer that lets you print words in
> small places (50 words into the size of a human hair).
>
> According to the CNN sci-tech www site, Adam has made a STM, that
> would be useful in creating semiconductor based IC's.
>
> I'm wondering if he has created a STM that can "chip lithography" or
> if he has just make a plain old handmade STM.
>
> In any case it would seem that the popular press has very little
> knowlege in how to report this sort of thing.
>
> /hawk
>
>
> --
> Harry S. Hawk habs@panix.com
>
> "Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority," [said]
> Justice John Paul Stevens
>
-- Harry S. Hawk habs@panix.com "Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority," [said] Justice John Paul Stevens
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