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Article: Le plus ça change ... le plus c'est la même chose
- Article from:
- Chemical Engineering Progress
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright American Institute of Chemical Engineers Dec 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Nicholas A. Peppas, a world leader in biomaterials, controlled drug delivery, and bionanotechnology, and the Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Pharmacy at the Univ. of Texas at Austin, was selected as the 59th AIChE Institute Lecturer. He titled his talk "La plus ca change... Nanotechnology and Bioengineering in an Evolving Chemical Engineering World." In it, he pointed out how appropriate the quote, "Le plus ca change ... le plus c'est la mSme chose," or "The more it changes, the more it stays the same," is, as AIChE begins its centennial celebration in 2008.
As early as the 1890s, the important coexistence of ...