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09-26-2007, 02:00 PM
Dr. Ellen Baker, part of the first United States astronaut crew to visit the Russian spacecraft MIR, will take part in the V World Junior Science Congress at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD). Baker will speak on "Living and Working in Space". Also invited to the Congress are Illinois physics professor Anthony J. Leggett, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics, and the director of the Max Planck Institute, Juan Ignacio Cirac, a winner of the Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific Research. The congress is designed to support and promote the development of science and technology in the Dominican Republic and other countries.
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