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...doing a story this week... of the battle between Russell Seitz and General Electric," said Jeff Fager, producer of the segment for 60 Minutes...
...controversy erupted when Seitz, an associate of the Olin Center for Strategic Studies at Harvard's Center of International Affairs, claimed in July of 1990 that GE had failed to credit him with the idea of an isotopically pure diamond that conducts heat 50 percent better than natural diamonds...
...Seitz said he first "suggested the idea of making diamond crystals out of just one kind of atom and thus improving heat conduction" in 1972, while working as a research associate with Nobel prize-winning Professor Nicolaas Bloembergen at Harvard's Gordon McKay Laboratory...
...Seitz said he received a patent for his idea in 1975 and proposed manufacturing the diamond, known as carbon 12, to GE in 1987. Scientists at the GE research laboratories responded at the time with lukewarm interest, he said...
...went there with Star Wars research officials and suggested they make this stuff," said Seitz, who is currently conducting research in arms control and proliferation at the Olin Center...