Rising Star in Nanotechnology Jumps to MIT; Director Is Named for Livermore Laboratory

LURED BY A LAB: Her research may focus on the manipulation of matter at the atomic level, but for Angela M. Belcher, 34, the move from the University of Texas at Austin to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be a large-scale production.

In recent years, Ms. Belcher's pioneering work at Texas has propelled her to the forefront of the nanotechnology field. Just last month, Ms. Belcher made headlines when her research group at Austin became the first to use viruses to grow

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