The three inventors work at Carnegie's Geophysical Laboratory and are members of a high-pressure research team. They and their colleagues subject matter to intense pressures and temperatures and have discovered previously unknown fundamental properties and structures of matter, while creating entirely new substances along the way. Their work has shed light on the conditions in planetary interiors and has advanced materials science.
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The Carnegie Institution of Washington (http://www.carnegieinstitution.org/), a private nonprofit organization, has been a pioneering force in basic scientific research since 1902. It has six research departments: the Geophysical Laboratory and the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, both located in Washington, D.C.; The Observatories, in Pasadena, California, and Chile; the Department of Plant Biology and the Department of Global Ecology, in Stanford, California; and the Department of Embryology, in Baltimore, Maryland.