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By Bill Cannon, PNNL Media Relations, Washington State Magazine

Contact: Lai-Sheng Wang, Associate Professor of Physics, WSU Tri-Cities, 509-372-7353, lwang@wsu.edu

All that glitters

Lai-Sheng Wang places a tinker-toyish thing onto a visitor's palm. Many such toys line the Washington State University physics professor's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory office in Richland. The object at hand--12 steel balls hinged to red plastic tubes twisted this way and that--form a perfectly symmetrical, 20-sided icosahedron.

Wang also displays a daughter-fashioned Father's Day card that testifies to his paternal greatness. He spends time with the family, washes dishes, cooks, and is always kind. Mixed in there is a gilded item that truly separates Wang from all other pops on earth: he fathered the gold buckyball.

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