Max Shulaker

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Max M. Shulaker is a Stanford-educated American electrical engineer and a professor at MIT credited with the development of the first carbon nanotube computer [1] and the first modern microprocessor built from carbon nanotube transistors. [2] His research was widely reported in US and British media. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

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References

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