Someday China will be running circles around the U.S. in biotech and solid-state physics.

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Suhail Khan's father was the late Mahboob Khan, a PhD in solid-state physics.

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G6 mainframe computer depends on the use of silicon chips with copper connections that draw on solid-state physics research done in the firm's laboratory in the 1980s.

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