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All posts by David C. Brock

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The Geography of the Semiconductor: Lessons from Herman Fialkov

August 28, 2012 | by David C. Brock

The story of Herman Fialkov, who died earlier this year, provides an exemplary lesson on semiconductor electronics and venture capital on both the East and West coasts.

Pioneers of Nanotechnology

February 18, 2011 | by David C. Brock

In January 2011, I conducted an interview with James Von Ehr II, arguably the entrepreneur who has invested the most of his personal resources in nanotechnology, as part of the partnership between the Center for Contemporary History and Policy and the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The Virtuous Circle: Chemistry and Electronics

December 20, 2010 | by David C. Brock

One of the largest instrumentation firms on the planet, Life Technologies, made a splash recently with its announcement of the first commercial DNA sequencer to employ semiconductor sequencing, the latest in a long series of virtuous circles of innovation produced by the intersection of chemistry with electronics.

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