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 Portrait of a person with shoulder-length blonde hair, wearing a hardhat, safety goggles, and safety vest, smiling. Portrait of a person with shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a blue shirt, smiling. Portrait of a person with short brown hair, wearing a black collared top, smiling. From left to right: Michael Crommie and Robert Ritchie. A man in a blue lab coat watches as a colleague in a white lab coat uses a multi-channel pipette in a laboratory. Vials, flasks, and other implements are seen in the foreground, and containers for chemicals fill shelves behind the scientists. A dark corridor with faint lights glowing from devices on the walls leads to an open doorway glowing bright white.