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3 unusual facts about Steven Block


Steven Block

His graduate work was completed in the laboratory of Howard Berg at the University of Colorado and Caltech.

In addition, he is a member of the scientific advisory group JASON, a senior fellow of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and an amateur bluegrass musician.

As an independent scientist, Block has pioneered the use of optical tweezers, a technique developed by Arthur Ashkin, to study biological enzymes and polymers at the single-molecule level.



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