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American
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Scientist
November 11
, 1930 -
February 20
, 2017
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
People
Problems
Go
Listening
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Education
Me
Simple
Poverty
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Good
Men
Women
Today
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Work
Good
Me
You
The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Best
Women
Lady
Students
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Education
Science
Women
Opportunity
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Life
People
Thinking
Easy
All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Work
Leadership
Science
Give
We're all concerned about sustainable energy. If we could recycle waste heat to generate energy, we could use it for something useful.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Energy
Something
Heat
Waste
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Myself
Music
Age
Brother
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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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Music
Me
School
Nobody
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Work
Space
Fall
Professional
The concept of graphene came along in 1947, but nobody paid much attention to it. I was fascinated because it had a linear E versus K while everything else that people were working on at that time had a quadratic dispersion relationship. I wondered why this was and what was so special about it. That was my fascination.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Relationship
Time
People
Nobody
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Nature
Happens
Just
Planet
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Great
Surprise
Energy
Chair
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Work
Good
Together
Energy
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Good
Me
Children
You
I was very much taken with carbon fibers because they seemed like the perfect medium to explore transport studies in carbon-based systems.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Perfect
Like
Explore
Because
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Life
Time
Father
People
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Work
You
Gender
Place
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Work
Women
You
Quality
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Change
Process
Everything
Changed
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Say
Three
First
Four
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Work
Reality
Some
Now
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.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Energy
Electricity
Means
Also
If you don't have material, you don't have an experiment.
Mildred Dresselhaus
You
Experiment
Material
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