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Smog-Busting Inventors Get Nation’s Highest Technology Award

by Pat Coate | March 15, 2005

Rochester, NY - Three scientists who helped this car-crazy world breathe a whole lot easier have been given the nation's highest technology award.

Their creation -- a ceramic honeycomb that oxidizes auto emissions -- has kept an estimated 3 billion tons of toxic pollutants out of the atmosphere over the last 30 years.

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