William Zhang (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

William Zhang

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The 2019 Goddard IRAD Innovator of the Year William Zhang holds one of the X-ray mirror segments that he and his team manufactured from mono-crystalline silicon -- a material never before configured for capturing high-energy X-ray photons.

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