Headline Oct4,2012 / ''Those Great Women Professors Of America!''

''THOSE GREAT WOMEN PROFESSORS OF AMERICA!''

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Not so long ago, a Samurai - approached her marketing professor- with a practical question? The Teacher's response could only be described as ''psychological funk''. This female professor in a blink of an eye had the Samurai's name blocked of her Facebook! Oh, dear!

The bitter truth of History is that its only when one has great teachers that humanity can be lead from the Unreal to the Real, from Darkness to Light, from Death to immortality

Naomi Halas is an exceptional Women Scientist famous for inventing something called nanoshells. Because of their freakish ability to capture light. nanoshells are helping mankind kill tumors, sniff out chemical weapons, and even improve solar power.

In 1990s, she was running her own laser lab at Rice University in Houston. Thats when nanotechnology exploded, and for the first time, all the odd twists of her career seemed to lineup. For several years she did experiments and explored theories, and finally in 1998, she discovered that coating an extremely tiny piece of glass with gold seemed to affect light.Then one of her students noticed that if you made the shell structure thicker or thinner, it could actually change the wavelength of light  --alot

She had stumbled on her life's mission. Dropping everything else, she turned the focus of her Lab to nanoshells. Within a few months she an her students had figured out a reliable way to manufacture and ''tune'' them, a breakthrough that is still the industry standard.Then another Professor, Jennifer West, joined Professor Naomi and her students. They injected nanoshells into the veins of cancerous mice and found that nanoshells naturally accumulated in the tumor. When they aimed a laser at the tumor, the nanoshells heated up and killed the tumor without affecting any of the surrounding tissue. This was the first ever completely nontoxic treatment for cancer.

Halas is just so philosophical about all this.So one time when she was out pruning her oak trees, she thought, Maybe nothing I have done will survive, maybe the nanoshells will come to nothing, maybe mankind will not survive, but maybe this oak tree will survive -so maybe this is the most important thing I have ever done, simply cutting this branch and not that branch.

''It's not like destiny with a capital D or something,'' she says,''but because somethings don't happen it opens doors for others.'' True, Professor! True!

While this Post is a humble way to honor this great professor and all the students who joined up and invented, I must conclude and and say that
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Come this moment of now, this Samurai knows well beyond the horizon. Can't be more diplomatic than that!!

Good Night and God Bless!

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