2) I would like to add AM is also a scientist

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Manocha has also worked at AT&T Microelectronics and AT&T Bell Laboratories.[7] Manocha began his career as a Research Scientist and was granted over a dozen U.S. and international patents for several novel inventions in the field of technology for microelectronics, including one for Anistropic etching that is a “process for treating patterned Very-large-scale integration lithographic masks to retain their shape during processing of VLSI wafers”.[8][9"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajit_Manocha