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Meet an Argonne Scientist: Orland

Bolingbrook resident and Argonne scientist Orlando Aucie

recently received two prestigious awards for his research. 

He helped develop the first affordable method for coating 

areas with diamond film. This system could make it possib

develop electronics and other devices that can reside in th

human body without causing infections or being rejected b

body’s defenses. The diamond coating system earned him 

R&D 100 award, which highlights the best new products a

technologies worldwide.

He was also awarded the Outstanding Technical Achievem

Award from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement A

the contributions of outstanding Hispanic American scienc

Many of your friends and neighbors

are among the 3,300 who work 

at Argonne National Laboratory’s

DuPage County site. This newsletter

highlights some of their recent 

activities. Argonne is one of the

nation’s largest federally funded

research centers. 

Argonne is operated by the University

of Chicago for the U.S. Department 

of Energy’s Office of Science. 

For more information, please visit

Argonne’s Web site at www.anl.gov.

Sincerely,

Hermann Grunder 

Director, Argonne National Laboratory

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“Today, more and more emergency response is regional instead of just local,” said Argonne’s Paul

Hewett. Responders from one area are not necessarily familiar with the emergency plans of other

agencies, but they must work together to effectively handle a crisis.

Measuring Masses

Argonne physicists have precisely measured the masses of radioactive elements that last for such 

tiny fractions of a second that they are almost nonexistent in the laboratory. Some were accurately 

measured for the first time ever. 

The results help explain the brilliant light given off by strange astronomical objects called “X-ray

bursters,” a combination of a normal star and a nearby dead star that has collapsed in on itself. 

The ferocious gravitational field of the collapsed star pulls gas from its companion until the surface 

of the collapsed star ignites in a runaway nuclear reaction. For a minute or more, the light from the

explosion may be the most brilliant source of X-rays in the sky.

Visit Argonne’s Web site for weekly updates: www.anl.gov

some of the unique and powerful research tools at Argo

an important tool in educating area doctors, medical res

The public meeting, to provide details of the latest develo

October 15, 2003, at Ashton Place, 341 75th St., Willow

Steve Koppes at the University, 773-702-8356, or Richa

Argonne Helps Turn Students into S

Argonne is helping improv

and high school by exposi

Pre-Service Teacher Progra

with Argonne scientists to 

works. For 10 summer wee

scientists on projects in the

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elementary and high schoo

“I have had the chance to 

firsthand about the current 

research from a science te

working in Argonne’s Envi

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Science and the National 

Future teacher Jamaris Ealy

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