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Rothberg’s work has been featured on the covers of the leading scientific journals including Science, Nature, and Cell. Very few scientists have done that, so he is not only a scientist, but very accomplished.
In fact, his Nature article this September was the major breakthrough in sequencing genomes, featured in news papers around the world, and now becoming the new standard at laboratories. Allowing any Genome to be easily sequenced. That will change the way you go to your Doctors office. This guy basically did put genome sequencing on a "chip". The equivalent of putting transistors on a chip for computing. He should win the National Medal of technology for this.
If you check, you will see he is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and serves on the board of Carnegie Mellon University. Plus he uses his money to fund other scientists working on childhood diseases, so he has his head on pretty straight.
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