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Welch Honoree Has Shed New Light On Microbial Life
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- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:30:59 GMT
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Welch honoree has shed new light on microbial life
Houston Chronicle
By TODD ACKERMAN
October 24, 1999
He had a brief fling with media stardom because of his work analyzing the
rock that provided evidence microbial life may have once existed on Mars.
But Richard Zare's lasting renown is likely to be for pioneering laser
devices and techniques, now common in laboratories around the world, that
detect and identify molecules in unimaginably small concentrations, whether
inside meteorites or inside cells.
But Zare's biggest splash came with the Mars rock and his laser's
determination that organic matter in it was not scattered randomly but
clumped together in globules of carbonate.
Full story here:
http://www.chron.com/cgi-bin/auth/story.mpl/content/interactive/space/news/99/991027.html
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