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September 23, 1985

Why Saran Wraps

Dr. Lawrence B. Coleman
University of California, Davis

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Dr. Lawrence B. Coleman, Associate Professor of Physics at University of California, Davis will discuss the underlying physical basis for the properties of materials. Why copper is a metal, silicon a semiconductor, and diamond a hard insulator.