One of those leading the reaction against carbon nanotubes (so-called, because their dimensions are measured in nanometres, or billionths of a metre) is Reshef Tenne, head of materials science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

ECONOMIST: Was the carbon nanotube overhyped?

Only the University of Queensland in Australia and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel attracted more votes.

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First, by stressing what computers cannot do, no matter how powerful or complicated they may become in future, Mr Harel, a mathematician at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, provides a welcome antidote to Internet hype.

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