May 26, 2006

'The Change Is Glacial'

DEBRA R. ROLISON, head, Advanced Electrochemical Materials Section, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Age: 52

Ph.D.: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980

American Association for the Advancement of Science, fellow

Her research: Builds nanoscopic objects to improve fuel cells, magnetic separations, sensing, and the power density of batteries.

Background: Grew up in Iowa, cooking alongside her mother. "I don't trust an experimental chemist who's not

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