Buckyballs and Screaming Cells - The amazing miniature world of UCLA chemist Jim Gimzewski
(L.A. Weekly)
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Just before noon on a crisp spring day, Jim Gimzewski is looking a little rusty around the edges. Walking across the UCLA campus, he stops to cadge a cigarette from a couple of students deep in conversation. It’s one thing to light up in the land of never-never, it’s quite another to bum fags from strangers, and the students eye him suspiciously. Tall and reedy, dressed in black from head to toe, hair graying and spiky, Gimzewski might easily be mistaken for a refugee from an aging British rock band. Nick Lowe comes to mind. ...