Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds. Mildred Dresselhaus Read Quote
I’ve been lucky. I’ve been at a place that’s a meritocracy. It doesn’t really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well. Mildred Dresselhaus Read Quote
I think women benefit from being in places and having positions where the quality of work is the criteria, not what you look like. Not every place is like that. Mildred Dresselhaus Read Quote
In the process of making nanomaterials, we learned that with the electronic density of states, the phonon electronic properties and everything change at the nano-level. So the thermoelectric properties would also be changed. Mildred Dresselhaus Read Quote
I would say the first three or four papers on nano-thermoelectricity in bismuth went almost unnoticed, but all of a sudden when Dirac cones came along – pop! – there was huge interest in bismuth-related materials. Mildred Dresselhaus Read Quote
Commercial thermoelectrics are a reality. The automobile industry is now working with conventional thermoelectric materials. They are interested a little bit in nanostructuring because under some conditions, the nanostructures work. Mildred Dresselhaus Read Quote
The holy grail would be to turn a knob, and out comes the nanotube of the right diameter and chirality. Mildred Dresselhaus Read Quote
We’re all concerned about sustainable energy. If we could recycle waste heat to generate energy, we could use it for something useful. Mildred Dresselhaus Read Quote
If we had improved materials that could be produced cheaply and in large quantities, certainly the thermoelectrics industry could move forward more quickly. Mildred Dresselhaus Read Quote
I behaved the way I was taught to behave: like a woman in the company of men. If you behaved aggressively in the company of men, they wouldn’t accept you. Mildred Dresselhaus Read Quote
