![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917100138im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Made-to-order Isotopes Hold Promise on Science's Frontier
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May 8, 2008
![Brad Sherrill](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917100138im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/brad_sherrill_l.jpg) | Designer labels have a lot of cachet--a principle that's equally true in fashion and physics. The future of nuclear physics is in designer isotopes--the relatively new power scientists have to make specific rare isotopes to solve scientific problems and open doors to new technologies, according to Bradley Sherrill, a University Distinguished Professor of physics and associate director for research at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. Full story |
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