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Utah’s Science Guy Breaking through barriers and taking Utah with him
Utah’s closest thing to the popular Bill Nye the Science Guy is physicist and inventor Bill Niedermeyer. Niedermeyer thinks everyone can be a scientist — and he’ll stop mid-task to make sure you’re following him as he explains every detail with unrivaled enthusiasm. An expert marksman and gourmand, Niedermeyer is unassuming and friendly. Now, partnered with a team of world-class scientists at EVÕQ Nano, he is leading Utah to the future of nanotech. This branch of technology cuts across numerous scientific disciplines — physics, chemistry, microbiology, engineering, just for starters. Nanotechnology came on the scene decades ago with big promises and mind-blowing models. It’s taken that long for the actual science to catch up with theory. Niedermeyer, EVÕQ Nano’s chief technology officer, and Dr. Bretni Kennon, Ph.D., chief science officer, spent hundreds of hours at the University of Utah’s Nanofab doing science no one else is doing and
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